Roman Opalka artist and art…the-artists.org

Roman Opalka has painted “time” exclusively since 1965. Not using symbols as clocks or calendar dates, he paints a sequence of numbers to represent the passing of time. The canvas size, height and style of digits never changes. Opalka has now passed the five million mark with over 200 paintings, spending more than half of his life on this single oeuvre. It will be completed only when he dies. He records the numbers as he counts in Polish, his mother tongue, and photographs his face at the end of each day’s painting session. The number paintings, photos, sound and texts are all elements Opalka uses for his installations on time. The name of this art work is: OPALKA 1965/ 1-oo

Roman Opalka, born in France in 1931, is a true cosmopolitan and lived in France, Poland, Berlin and New York. Before setting out on his counting voyage “OPALKA 1965/1-oo”, Opalka removed himself in logical steps from figurative work, searching for a clear approach to represent the irreversibility of time………

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