From 1965 up until now: telling Opalka’s time in painting and in photography <br>De 1965 para cá: contando o tempo de Opalka na pintura e na fotografia

We pursued the project of artist Roman Opalka through evidences of his creative process which is accomplished on numerically tagged paintings and daily photographs of his own face. This article focuses Opalka’s (1965/1-”) canvases and pictures as an expression of time as a procedural, flowing and ir...

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Main Authors: Nina Velasco, Elane Abreu
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2009-08-01
Series:Discursos Fotográficos
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Online Access:http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/discursosfotograficos/article/view/2935
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Summary:We pursued the project of artist Roman Opalka through evidences of his creative process which is accomplished on numerically tagged paintings and daily photographs of his own face. This article focuses Opalka’s (1965/1-”) canvases and pictures as an expression of time as a procedural, flowing and irreversible element, by differentiating it of the cross time (mémoire invonlontaire) as suggested in Marcel Proust. Each painting or photograph in his artwork correspond to a chronologically counted time, repeated, persistent, and not open to occasional stops. <p><p>Perseguimos o projeto do artista Roman Opalka por meio dos indícios de seu processo de criação, que se materializa em telas numericamente pintadas e fotografias diárias do seu rosto. Este artigo destaca a obra Opalka (1965/1-”) como expressão do tempo de caráter processual, contínuo e irreversível, diferenciando-a do tempo entrecruzado (mémoire involontairet), evidenciado por Marcel Proust. Cada quadro ou fotografia da obra corresponde ao tempo cronologicamente contado, repetido, persistente, e não favorável às interrupções ocasionais.
ISSN:1808-5652
1984-7939