--- title: "101 - Mistakes of Blank, Arakawa 4/13-5/11 1985" date: 2017-08-11T15:59:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/101-mistakes-of-blank-arakawa-4-13-5-11-1985" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space) [Arakawa](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) Apr 12 – May 10, 1985 ![Arakawa The Quantums Slipper 1984 1](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/12324/Arakawa-The-Quantums-Slipper-1984_1.jpg) Arakawa The Quantum's Slipper, 1984 Description Unique entrances into exactly X, in which something happens, then something happens and something happens… “And is that what you need?” “It could save me decades!” “As far as what?” “As far as how to fight off languor so as to be able to conduct more precisely an individual cosmos, for one thing… gigantic.” “These are operational, these paintings, are they?” “Oh, very much so, functional, definitely.” “But are they paintings? Of what? For what?” “Better let them inform of this themselves \[of all paintings in the world these are some which can do that!\], and once beyond that what comes next has not yet been determined, not yet by anyone, although Arakawa and Tom S. Drover are, of course, continuing in that vein – or to mix… still stringing telephone wire or.” “Something to do with how to be spacetime, I presume.” “Oh, one can never presume too much when dealing with atmospheric pressure.” “My dear cosmos, articulations of lightspace – trickles of this which have become lines… but let’s stop here.” [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/exhara85_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) ![Arakawa Almost I 1984 85 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Almost-I-1984-85_1.JPG) Arakawa Almost I, 1984-85 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Almost I 1984 85 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Almost I, 1984-85 ![Arakawa Naming 1984 85 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Naming, 1984-85 ![Arakawa Not I 1984 A 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Not I, 1984 ![Arakawa Not I 1984 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Not I, 1984 ![Arakawa Along The Way 1983 84 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Along-the-Way-1983-84_1.JPG) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Along The Way 1983 84 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa The Forming Of Nameless 1983 84 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa Critical Mass 1983 84 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa The Vivid The Virgin The Fine Today 1982 84 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa Along The Way 1983 84 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Along-the-Way-1983-84_1.JPG) ![Arakawa The Forming Of Nameless 1983 84 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-The-Forming-of-Nameless-1983-84_1.JPG) ![Arakawa Critical Mass 1983 84 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Critical-Mass-1983-84_1.JPG) ![Arakawa The Vivid The Virgin The Fine Today 1982 84 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-The-Vivid-The-Virgin-The-Fine-Today-1982-84_1.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Along The Way 1983 84 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa The Forming Of Nameless 1983 84 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa Critical Mass 1983 84 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view ![Arakawa The Vivid The Virgin The Fine Today 1982 84 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), 1985 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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