Roman Opalka (French, 1931 - 2011)

Roman Opalka

French | 1931 - 2011

Roman Opalka was a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1931. His work is currently being shown at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art have featured Roman Opalka's work in the past.Roman Opalka's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 54 USD to 1,742,863 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,742,863 USD for Detail 407817 - 434714 from the series 1965/1 - ?, sold at Desa Unicum in 2021. Roman Opalka has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Daily Art Magazine and Christie's Daily. The most recent article is Re/Opening the DAAD Archives written for ARTMargins in March 2024. The artist died in 2011.

Artist's alternative names: Roman Opałka

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Past Exhibitions

The Irreplaceable Human

Nov 23,2023 - Apr 01,2024

Articles

Re/Opening the DAAD Archives

Re/Opening the DAAD Archives  

ARTMargins 25/03/2024
 Intesa Sanpaolo presents 'Una collezione inattesa' at Gallerie d'Italia in Milan
Ketterer Kunst to Exhibit the Lenz Schönberg Collection in Berlin

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..Understanding this project as inextricably related to his own mortality, Opalka famously said, ‘It is important that the last Détail should not be finished by me, but by my life.’ By the time of his death,...

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Lévy Gorvy, London

..After each work session, Opalka always photographs himself in a white shirt and strong lighting facing his painting...

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Yvon Lambert, Paris

..“The foundation of my work, to which I have devoted my life, manifests itself in a process of recording a progression that both documents time, and also defines it," states the artist...

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Żak | Branicka

.. Opalka's life's work was centred around one task: ‘the description from number one to infinity'...

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Stephen Friedman Gallery

..Each canvas was identical in size and Opalka's process was rigorously controlled by self-imposed rules...

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Stephen Friedman Gallery

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