ART–TIM–OPA

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Systems of Clarity

ART–TIM–OPA

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ART–TIM–OPA

Index Code:

ART–TIM–OPA

Orgin:

France / Poland

Field Notes:

Counting accumulates duration; repetition replaces image.

Defining Moment:

1965–2011 numerical paintings where counting proceeds toward infinity.

Roman Opalka

(

1931–2011

)

roh-mahn oh-pahl-kah

Opalka builds a world where time unfolds numerically, using continuous counting to render duration as visible structure.

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Roman Opałka’s work, this approach appears where counting records time.

Position

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Roman Opałka’s work, this approach appears where counting records time.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Observartory

François Morellet — Systems

Hanne Darboven — Zahlenschreibarbeiten

Ellsworth Kelly — Panels

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

meaning as structure

Idea as structure

In Dialogue

time as notation