--- title: "143 - Paintings for Closed Eyes, Arakawa 10/20-11/10 1990" date: 2017-08-21T17:32:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/143-paintings-for-closed-eyes-arakawa-10-20-11-10-1990" 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) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Paintings for Closed Eyes [Arakawa](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) Oct 19 – Nov 9, 1990 ![Arakawa At War Who Or What Is This Cover Image 1990 1 Tif](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/Arakawa-At-War-Who-or-What-Is-This-cover-image-1990_1.tif.jpg) Arakawa At War (Who or What Is This?), 1990 Description The philosopher Hans-George Gadamer on the recent works of Arakawa: *An artist who sees spaces, walls and rooms as paintings and who sees paintings as walls and floors transforms the usual constancies of orientation into a strange-enticing game – a game of continually thinking out.* One viewing this from afar, caught within the narrow confines of reproductions, can only begin to divine all that will get going there, what has been erected and spread out there. It is a uniquely astounding event and it prods me to remember the verses of Paul Celan: *There are still songs to sing beyond the human being.* What comes next are paintings for closed eyes. No revolution in the visual could be more severe. Only by means of a precise (into nowhere) ordering of its blanks could a painting be made to survive the closing of the eyes. Let the revolution begin. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/exhara90_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) ![Arakawa Abrupt Resemblances 1989 90 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Abrupt-Resemblances-1989-90_1.JPG) Arakawa Abrupt Resemblances, 1989-90 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Abrupt Resemblances 1989 90 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Abrupt Resemblances, 1989-90 ![Arakawa At War Who Or What Is This 1990 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa At War (Who or What Is This?), 1990 ![Arakawa Close Your Eyes No 1 1989 90 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Close Your Eyes no. 1, 1989-90 ![Arakawa Moral Address 1989 B 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Arakawa Moral Address, 1989 ![Arakawa Cultural Or Sexual Differences 1989 90 A 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Cultural-or-Sexual-Differences-1989-90-A_1_180922_182851.JPG) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Cultural Or Sexual Differences 1989 90 A 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 A 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Cultural Or Sexual Differences 1989 90 A 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Cultural-or-Sexual-Differences-1989-90-A_1_180922_182851.JPG) ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Ethical-Geometry-1989_1.JPG) ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Ethical-Geometry-1989_1_180922_183053.JPG) ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Ethical-Geometry-1989_1_180922_183157.JPG) ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 A 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Paintings-for-Closed-Eyes-1990-A_1.JPG) ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Arakawa-Paintings-for-Closed-Eyes-1990_1.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Arakawa Cultural Or Sexual Differences 1989 90 A 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Ethical Geometry 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 A 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view ![Arakawa Paintings For Closed Eyes 1990 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings for Closed Eyes, 1990 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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