Julian Opie, 30 May 2015 — 31 Jul 2015
Exhibitions

Julian Opie

Following the inauguration of his to date largest permanent public art piece, Walk (2014), last year on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Galerie Bob van Orsouw announces Julian Opie’s sixth solo exhibition, setting the stage for the artist’s latest work that is an evident continuation from his archetypal walking figures: “A running figure has an almost balletic sense of rhythm and grace much closer to an animal than a person. The outfit and paraphernalia of the average runner is brightly coloured and somewhat extreme and emphatic. I found myself using very bright background colours based on public safety signage”.

With public commissions from Seoul to New York, and an uninterrupted flow of large museum exhibitions around the world, the work of Julian Opie is firmly embedded in the cannon of contemporary art history. At once recognisable, Opie’s distinctive formal language reflects his artistic preoccupation with the idea of representation, and the means by which images are perceived and understood.

Always at the forefront of digital innovation, Opie explores ways of seeing through reinterpreting the vocabulary of everyday life; his typical, reductive style speaks to both a visual and spatial experience of the world around us. Addressing the fundamentals of classical portraiture, sculpture, and even classical Japanese woodblock prints, the artist connects the slick visual language of modern society and art history.

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