Roman Opalka: Painting ∞Exhibition
Roman Opalka: Painting ∞
Roman Opalka: Painting ∞ provides an overview of Opalka’s career, revealing his œuvre to be a grand metaphor for human existence and a deceptively restrained expression of the artist’s vitality and passion in the face of an unstoppable evaporation. The exhibition will present a key group of paintings (each titled Détails) from 1965 / 1 – ∞, complemented by a selection of the artist’s related Self-Portraits photographs and audio recordings in which Opalka intones, in his native Polish, the numbers he is painting. The exhibition will also present antecedents to 1965 / 1 – ∞. Two rare Chronomes paintings of 1963 will be on view, as will the entire series of Opalka’s ten Etude sur le Mouvement works on paper from 1959-60. These works will be shown together with the Details for the first time in the United States.
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Publications
Selected Press
Art News | Reviews: New York
November 1, 2014
In 1965, the French-born Polish artist Roman Opalka (1931–2011) began his magisterial project 1965 …
Hyperallergic | Roman Opalka’s Numerical Destiny
October 6, 2014
In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opalka came to an important decision. While sitting at …
The Culture Trip | Opalka’s Art and Life: Challenging the End of Time
October 3, 2014
French-born, Polish painter Roman Opalka was deeply concerned with the material capture of the intangible. …
art critical | Everything and Nothing At All: Roman Opalka Painting Infinity
September 22, 2014
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Artnet | David Ebony’s Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for September
September 22, 2014
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Artslant | Fade Into White: Roman Opalka's Infinity
September 22, 2014
The magnitude of entropy overcomes one who moves along the two floors of Dominique Lévy’s gallery, …
Art Observerd | New York- Roman Opalka: “Painting ∞” At Dominique Lévy Through October 18th, 2014
September 18, 2014
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Artforum | There Goes the Neighborhood
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New York Observer | At Lévy Gallery: The Obsessions of Roman Opalka
September 5, 2014
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Architectural Digest | Looking Back at Roman Opalka's Attempt to Paint Every Number
August 31, 2014
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Artslant | September in New York: Maneuver the mania
August 28, 2014
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