Roman Opalka comes from a Polish background studied at the School of Fine Art in Lodz and Academy of Fina Arts of Warsaw where he discovered drawing, painting, engraving and sculpture from the 1960s onwards. This is when he started to work on the issue of time.

In 1965, painting his first “Detail”, he began a work which was to become his ‘project for life’, intertwining with the very core of his existence. On canvasses he painted numbers counting from 1 to infinite, then recorded and photographed his own face after each painting session. This unique piece of work, a programme of a whole life, is an attempt to make it possible to visualise time.

portfolio

works and exhibitions views

exhibitions

26.06.04 – 02.01.05
Opalka 1965/1-∞, L’oeuvre photographique
exhibition

14.02 – 30.03.86
Opalka 1965/1-∞
exhibition

events

14.11.04
détails d’opalka
rencontre avec claudie gallay

17.09.11 – 18.09.11
olivier debré – roman opalka : films
Journées du Patrimoine

2002
l’octogone  – roman olpaka (1er prototype)
production  (agence d’artistes)

1995
Opalka 1965/1- Passage du cinquième million
édition d’un CD

09.12.93
Roman Opalka & Christian Schlatter
grande conférence

1990
Opalka 1965/1- Détail 3999968 – 4000031
édition d’un CD