On Kawara: One Thousand Days One Million Years [Chelsea]

January 1–December 31, 1993, Dia Chelsea

On Kawara, JAN. 1, 1993, 1993. Dia Art Foundation; Gift of One Million Years Foundation. © One Million Years Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York

Overview

One Thousand Days One Million Years was a yearlong installation by On Kawara devised specifically for Dia Center for the Arts. Every month through the 1993 calendar year, a different group of paintings from Kawara’s Today series, begun in 1966, were presented. In addition, One Million Years (Past), a monumental ten-volume series of binders containing pages filled with typewritten dates, was exhibited continuously, and One Million Years (Future) was realized for the first time as a sound piece.