Starts:
Apr
03
2012
Exhibition:

On Kawara Time Machine

POSTED BY: Manuel Fernández | Thu Apr 19th, 2012 4:14 a.m.
LOCATION: Caesura Gallery

On Kawara Time Machine", 2011/Ongoing, Website, HTML, javascript, CSS

In On Kawara Time Machine the viewer is given a heightened awareness of death and of the passage of time.

A javascript counter automates the On Kawara time-based "Date paintings" from his Today series. The script begins on January 4, 1966, the date of Kawara's first painting, and counts upward toward the actual date checked in the operating system clock. The CSS code produces the look of the paintings, using futura bold typography on a black background.

The project will be completed on the date of On Kawara's death, at which time a new variable will be added to the code to make the counter end (reset) on that day.

Link:
http://caesura.cc/gallery/on-kawara-time-machine/

Address:
Caesura Gallery
208 Provencher Blvd, PO Box 4.
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R2H 0G0
Canada

Born in Málaga, 1977. Manuel Fernández is a spanish artist based in Madrid. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He work with a wide range of media including: painting, website, animated gif, installation, photography, video and print. His notable pieces include QR Calligraphy, Two Hundred and Sixteen Colors, On Kawara Time Machine, Ants and most recently Broken Gradients. Fernández has several works at the Artbase of Rhizome at the New Museum NYC and has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Bronx Art Space, New York, The Photographers Gallery, London, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, Shangai Art Museum and the Triennale di Milano. Manuel has received numerous awards for his work, including Carmen Arozena Prize, Madrid, Projecte Capella Intervention Prize, Palma de Mallorca, and Castellón Expanded Painting Prize. Fernández is founder and curator of Domain Gallery a web based gallery focused on digital and internet based works. His work have been featured in multiple outlets, including spanish newspaper El País, trend magazine Notodo, Triangulation Blog and Minus Space Blog, New York, among others.