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Roman Opalka (French, 1931)
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Roman Opalka
1965 / 1 - oo Detail 3065461 - 3083581 1965
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Roman Opalka
1965 / 1 - oo Detail 5025009 1965
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Biography |
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1931 |
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Born in Hocquincourt, France to Polish parents |
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1949 |
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Kunstgewerbeschule Lodz, Poland |
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1950 - 1956 |
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Kunstakademie Warsaw, Poland |
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1965 |
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Begins the series OPALKA 1965/1-infinity |
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1979 |
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-present, lives and works in Bazérac/Tournon d’Agenais in Southwest France. |
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Exhibitions |
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2002 |
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England |
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2002 |
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L'ART D'AUJOURD'HUI: UN CHOIX DANS LA COLLECTION DU FONDS NATIONAL D'ART |
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2002 |
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CONTEMPORAIN, Musée de Grenoble, France |
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2002 |
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VANITÉS CONTEMPORAINES, L'Arsenal, Soissons, France; Chapelle des Ursulines, Quimperlé; Musée Ziem, Martigues, France |
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2002 |
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SPECIAL INSTALLATION OF PROTOTYPE FOR "L'OCTOGONE OPALKA", realized by Jean Nouvel, Morat, France |
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2002 |
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1968 - 1977, L'ART EN CAUSE(S), CAPC, Bordeaux, France |
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2002 |
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KUNST 2002 - ZURICH, Galerie Zéro, l'Infini, Zurich, Switzerland |
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2002 |
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NONCOMPOSITION: 15 CASE STUDIES, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, |
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2002 |
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IN BETWEEN: ART FROM POLAND 1945 – 2000, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL |
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2002 |
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CAMOSHOW, Kunstmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany |
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2002 |
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ROMAN OPALKA: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SOUND, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (solo) |
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2002 |
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Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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2001 |
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PERMANENT INSTALLATION BY ROMAN OPALKA OF OPALKA 1965 /1-infinty, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Lodz, Poland (solo) |
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2001 |
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OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty, Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland (solo) |
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2001 |
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OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty, Espace Renn, Paris, France (solo) |
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2001 |
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Hommage pour ses 70 ans à Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965 / 1- infinty, Musée de l’Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland (solo) |
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2001 |
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OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty, Verrière, Fondation Hermès, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
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2001 |
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DANS LA SÉRIE DES MAÎTRES : ROMAN OPALKA, “OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty,” Kasa Galerie, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (solo) |
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1999 |
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OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty , Katowice Galerie, Katowice, Poland; Medienzentrum der Verlagsgruppe Passau, St.-Anna-Kapelle, Passau, Germany (solo) |
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1998 |
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ART CONTEMPORANI EN ESPAIS PUBLICS, Musée des Beaux Arts, Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain (solo) |
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Literature |
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2000 |
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50 Jahre Kunst aus mittel Europa (50 Years of Art in Central Europe): 1949-1999, (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien) pp.225; Roman Opalka pp. 119, 229-230. |
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1999 |
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Das XX Jahrhundert: ein Jahre hundert Kunst in Deutschland, (National Galerie, Berlin, Germany) 668 pp; Roman Opalka pg. 373. |
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1999 |
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Opalka, Roman, OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty DETAIL-5240852, with a forward by Loránd Hegyi, Prestel Verlag: 1999, 140 pp. |
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1998 |
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…Roman Opalka der beifreite Sisyphos, Städtische Galerie, Altes Theater Ravensburg, Canz Ostfildern-Ruit Verlag: 1998, 128pp. |
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1997 |
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Made in France 1947 - 1997, (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France) Roman Opalka pg. 17. |
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1996 |
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Roman Opalka: OPALKA 1965/1-infinty, (Gallery ISM, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, South Korea) pg. 63. |
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1996 |
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Pietkiewicz, Ewa & Marek. Roman Opalka, (Modulus, Krakow, Poland) pg.116. |
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1996 |
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Noël, Bernard, Roubaud, Jacques and Savinel, Christine, Roman Opalka, Dis Voir: 1996, 132 pp. |
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1995 |
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Fréchuret, Maurice; Hegyi, Lorand; Jedlinski, Jaromir; Kawalska, Bozena; Swierszcz. Roman Opalka, Opalka1965/1-infinty, (Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland) pg. 100. |
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1994 |
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Honisch, Dieter. Roman Opalka OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinty , (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany) pg.48. |
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1994 |
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Fréchuret, Maurice, “La Machine a Piendre,” Jaqueline Chambon (Marseille): 1994. |
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1993 |
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Werner, Stanislav, A Conversation with Roman Opalka, Verlag Sabine Zauner (Dachau): 1993, 48 pp. |
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1992 |
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Opalka, Roman, Roman Opalka, "OPALKA 1965 / 1 -infinity”, with an essay by Christian Schlater, Flammarion 4 / La Hune (Paris): 1992. |
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1991 |
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Opalka, Roman, Recontre par la separation – Begegnung durch Trennung, Verlag Walter Storms (Munich): 1991. |
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1990 |
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L'art conceptuel, une perspective, (ARC Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris ) 256 pp.; Roman Opalka : pg. 220. |
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1990 |
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Opalka, Roman, OPALKA 1965 / 1 - infinity, Verlag Ottenhausen (Munich): 1990, 148 pp. |
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1988 |
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Guyot, Gérard. Opalka, rencontre par la séparation, (Centre culturel de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina) pg. 140. |
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1987 |
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Fifty Years of Collecting : an Anniversary Selection, Painting since World War II, (The Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY) 152 pp. |
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1976 |
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Bonito Oliva, Achille, Europe/America,: The Different Avant-Gardes, Ed. Franco Maria Ricci, Deco Press (Milan): 1976, pp.304; Opalka p. 225. |
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