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Julian OPIE Ann Blinking - 2007
Video, 46'' LCD screen
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Julian OPIE Ann Blinking - 2007
Video, 46'' LCD screen
2/4 e…
See original version (French)
Estimate €5,000 - €7,000
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Description
Julian OPIE
Ann Blinking - 2007
Video, 46'' LCD screen
2/4 edition
Edition of 4 + 1AP
109.50 × 66 × 11.50 cm
Computer 46'' LCD Screen; edition 2/4 + 1 AP
43.11 × 25.98 × 4.53 in.
Edition "2/4
Provenance: Lisson Gallery, London
Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner
FR
Julian Opie, the youngest of the new British sculptors of the 1980s, who included Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Anish Kapoor, makes astute use of computers in his portraiture. His depiction of the human figure is inspired by road signs, billboards and schematic representations. He has been described as a "painter of modern life", a life in which the real and the virtual, the artificial and the authentic, feelings and logos are all mixed up. Opie's figures explore the tension between general and specific reality, and the artist uses his own line drawings of real people to create his paintings. Her portraits transform individual subjects into universal signs, challenging the very genre of portraiture, ranging from still images to moving animations created in videos on LCD screens, LED technology or lenticular acrylics in which the figures appear to move when viewed from different angles.
Ann, Blinking is a perfect example of this play of illusion between the immobility of the representation and the movement of the living, thanks to the subtly different rhythms of the movement of the model's eyes. The artist is interested in reality, not as a photographic record of a past moment, but as a real reality made up of references, memory, sensory experience and representation.
EN
Julian Opie, the youngest of the New British Sculptors of the eighties including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon or Anish Kapoor, cleverly uses computers in his art of portraiture. His way of representing the human figure is inspired by traffic signs, signage, and schematic representations. He was described as a "painter of modern life", a life in which the real and the virtual, the artificial and the authentic, feelings and logos are all mixed up. Opie's figures explore the tension between general and specific reality and the artist uses his own line drawings of real people to create the pictures. His portraits transform individual subjects into universal signs, questioning the genre of portraiture itself, ranging from still images to moving animations created in videos on LCD screens, LED technology or lenticular acrylics in which the figures appear to move when viewed from different angles.
Ann, Blinking is a perfect example of this illusion game between the immobility of representation and the movement of the living, thanks to the subtly differing rhythms of the movement in the eyes of the model. The artist is interested in reality, not as a photographic record of a past moment, but as a true reality of references, memory, sensory experience and representation. The pole dancer called Shahnoza is a recurring theme in Opie's work.
The work is signed on a label that will be given to the buyer.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Julian Opie studio
Julian OPIE
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