accolades he equated to Gins's literary prowess. For his part, Arakawa declared: "Painting is only an exercise, never more than that." Architectural works by Arakawa and Gins "Ubiquitous Site, Nagi's Ryoanji, Architectural Body (Nagi, Okayama, 1994 / Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art) "The Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro (Yōrō, Gifu, 1995) "Reversible Destiny Office," in "The Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro" (Yōrō, Gifu, 1997) "Shidami Resource Recycling Model House (Nagoya, 2005) "The Reversible Destiny Lofts - Mitaka" (In Memory of Helen Keller) (Mitaka, Tokyo 2005) "Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa) (Northwest Harbor, East Hampton, Long Island, NY, 2008) "Biotopological Scale-Juggling Escalator (NY, 2013: / Dover Street Market New York, Comme des Garçons) Books by Arakawa and Gins Word Rain (Or a Discursive Introduction to the Philosophical Investigations of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says) (Gins, 1969) The Mechanism of Meaning (Arakawa & Gins, 1971) Intend (Gins, 1973) What the President Will Say and Do!! (Gins, 1984) To Not to Die (Gins, 1987) Architecture: Sites of Reversible Destiny (Arakawa & Gins, 1994) Hellen Keller or Arakawa (Gins, 1994) Reversible Destiny (Arakawa & Gins, 1997) Architectural Body (Arakawa & Gins, 2002) Making Dying Illegal (Arakawa & Gins, 2006) For Example (A Critique of Never) (Arakawa, 1974) Filmography Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (1969) For Example (A Critique of Never) (1971) Exhibitions Since the 1950s, Arakawa's artworks have been displayed in over four hundred exhibitions in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Select Solo Exhibitions 1965: Peintures de Arakawa - Galerie Aujourd'hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1966: Arakawa - Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1970: Shusaku Arakawa, Japanese Pavillion - XXXV Venice Biennale, Italy 1974: Arakawa: Recent Prints - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1979: Arakawa Prints - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA 1979: Arakawa: The Mechanism of Meaning - The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 1982: Arakawa, Matrix 72 - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA 1986: Arakawa: Paintings to Read - The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1994: Arakawa: Drawings 1961 - 74 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 2006: Shusaku Arakawa: Print Works - Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan 2010: Funeral Bioengineering to Not to Die - Early Works by Arakawa Shusaku - The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Select Group Exhibitions 1958: Tenth Yomiuri Indépendant Exhibition - Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1959: Eleventh Yomiuri Indépendant Exhibition