Author: | ON KAWARA (Kawara, On) [1932-2014] - Jong, Karlyn de |
Title: | UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. DeLuxe Edition of 50 copies. |
Publisher: | GlobalArtAffairs/Luiscius Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden/'s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), 2011 |
Description: | Black box, containing a book: black-lettered grey cloth cloth-covered boards (hardcover), 24 x 17,5 x 5,5 cms., 205 pp text + a CD reproducing Karlyn's search to meet Mr. On Kawara in order to ask him some questions; housed in a black-lettered grey cloth-covered cardboard case, all kept together in a black-lettered grey cardboard cassette. The DeLuxe edition additionally contains a postcard with a question for On Kawara, returned to sender, loosely inserted. |
Note: | Since the beginning of 2007, Karlyn De Jongh searched for questions to On Kawara by persons who know the artist or his work very well. This resulted in a collection of 79 questions by people from all over the world. After several attempts to present these questions to On Kawara - trying to meet him in New York, sending postcards with the questions to him and contacting some of his close friends - until the day of this publication, the questions remain unanswered. From the DELUXE EDITION numbered in relief 1 up to 50. *Personal Structures Art Projects Number 4 (P.S.A.P. # 4). THIS COPY UNNUMBERED. Loosely inserted addressed and stamped envelope by Ernst Richter, Berlin (no date), containing a folded card, 12 x 34 cms., with text 'in memoriam On Kawara' (front wrapper) and 'July 10, 2014' & '29774 On Kawara is dead' (interior). |
ISBN: | 9789490784058 |
Book No: | 21004 |