roman opalka

some words in french of an artist who created a fascinating work:

ROMAN OPALKA

« Je voulais manifester le temps,
son changement dans la durée,
celui qui montre la nature,
mais d'une manière propre à l'homme,
sujet conscient de sa présence
définie par la mort :
émotion de la vie dans la durée irréversible »

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In 1965 (my year of birth) Opalka, a French born painter of Polish origin, began painting a process of counting - from one to infinity - called "OPALKA 1965/1-∞". 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. All "details" have the same title, "OPALKA 1965/1-∞ Detail - A-Z" (where A stands for the first number on the canvas and Z for the last one) ; the idea does not date although the artist has pledged his life to its execution: "All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life."

On the 22d of July 2004, he achieved the number 5.486.028 (Le Monde - 31.07.04).

NOWADAYS HE PAINTS ABOUT 380 NUMBERS PER DAY

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