Roman OpalkaPainting

Pier Vittorio Aureli’s selection for his storefront.

I had a chance to follow Opalka’s lectures when I studied at the Salzburg Summer Academy in the early 1990s and I since then he is one of my favorite artists.

“Painting provides an overview of Roman Opalka’s (1931-2011) career, spanning more than five decades. In 1965, Opalka began a project that would occupy the entirity of his career, titled 1965/1–[Infinity]. Each painting comprises rows of tiny numbers that progress sequentially from one canvas to the next.”