Julian Opie. walking figures
- When: May 11, 2023 - October 15, 2023
- this event is ended
- Place: Roma, Galleria Valentina Bonomo
- Region: Lazio
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In his fourth one-man show at the Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Julian Opie will be presenting his latest walking figures – thirteen works featuring human figures seen walking in the street.
Each of them is unique, with a style all their own, expressed in their clothing, their movements and the objects they carry, or simply the accessories they wear. The works’ protagonists are caught going about their daily lives – these are people walking somewhere for a very specific reason, often clutching phones or reading an email.
The artist develops and transforms his subjects, arriving at the essence of their forms via a process in which the marks he makes are reduced to a minimum. The result is works that may be stylised but lose nothing in terms of expressiveness or individuality, and whose freshness is rendered all the more emphatic by the extreme directness with which they present themselves to the viewer.
Opie’s works, which have been described as “modern icons” of a generic and generalised existence, turn a spotlight on questions associated with the psychology of perception and with knowledge-as-practice, delving into the ambiguities of the relationship linking reality and its totemic representations. The world Opie depicts, using digital technology, is effectively a meditation on the complex interplay between nature and artifice, and between signs/marks and reality as we observe and experience it.
The exhibition is presented in a text by Valentino Catricalà, director of the SODA Gallery in Manchester.
Title: Julian Opie. walking figures
Opening: May 11, 2023
Ending: October 15, 2023
Organization: Galleria Valentina Bonomo
Place: Roma, Galleria Valentina Bonomo
Address: Via del Portico d’Ottavia, 13 - Roma
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 3-7pm
More info on this website: https://galleriabonomo.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/galleriabonomo/
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