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OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ - Détails photographiques
7 black-and-white pictures
25 x 31 cm
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7 black-and-white pictures
25 x 31 cm
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OPALKA 1965/1 - Eternity (Détail 2578759-2601103)
Acrylic on canvas
136 x 197 cm
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Acrylic on canvas
136 x 197 cm
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Carte de voyage, détail: 2.323.817 - 2.325.573
Ink on paper
1965
24 x 33 cm
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Ink on paper
1965
24 x 33 cm
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Roman Opalka (1931 - 2011)
1931 Born in Hocquincourt, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
1965 began painting a process of counting - from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers are painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist calls a 'detail', takes up counting where the last left off. Each 'detail' is the same size (196 x 135 cm), the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw. All details have the same title, "1965 / 1 - 8"; the idea does not date although the artist has pledged his life to its execution.
1968 changed from black to a grey background 'because it's not a symbolic colour, nor an emotional one'
1968 Opalka introduced a tape recorder, speaking each number into the microphone as he paints it, and he also began photographing himself standing before the canvas after each day's work, a ritual bookkeeping of time passing. The process is endless, but measured against its goal - infinity
1972 decided to gradually lighten this grey background by adding 1 per cent more white to the ground with each passing detail. He expects to be painting virtually in white on white by the time he reaches 7 777 777
2007 Opalka participated at the symposium "Personal Structures Time-Space-Existence" a project initiated by the artist Rene Rietmeyer.
1931 Born in Hocquincourt, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
1965 began painting a process of counting - from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers are painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist calls a 'detail', takes up counting where the last left off. Each 'detail' is the same size (196 x 135 cm), the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw. All details have the same title, "1965 / 1 - 8"; the idea does not date although the artist has pledged his life to its execution.
1968 changed from black to a grey background 'because it's not a symbolic colour, nor an emotional one'
1968 Opalka introduced a tape recorder, speaking each number into the microphone as he paints it, and he also began photographing himself standing before the canvas after each day's work, a ritual bookkeeping of time passing. The process is endless, but measured against its goal - infinity
1972 decided to gradually lighten this grey background by adding 1 per cent more white to the ground with each passing detail. He expects to be painting virtually in white on white by the time he reaches 7 777 777
2007 Opalka participated at the symposium "Personal Structures Time-Space-Existence" a project initiated by the artist Rene Rietmeyer.
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