The essay deals with the artistic production by Roman Opalka (1931-2011) and On Kawara (1932-2014), leading personalities in the field of Conceptual Art, who devoted their whole work to a continuous and coherent reflection on time and memory. In the Sixties both the artists gave birth, each one in their own operative and expressive mode, to extremely rigorous artistic processes that coincided with the duration of their own existence, getting to an end only with their death.
Il saggio analizza la produzione artistica di Roman Opalka (1931-2011) e On Kawara (1932-2014), noti maestri della corrente concettuale che hanno dedi- cato l’intera loro opera a una coerente e costante riflessione sul tempo e sulla memoria. A metà degli anni Sessanta del secolo scorso i due artisti hanno dato vita, ognuno con le proprie modalità operative ed espressive, a progetti artistici caratterizzati da un estremo rigore processuale che hanno coinciso con la durata della loro esistenza, arrivando a compimento solo con la fine della loro vita.
Tempo e memoria nell’arte concettuale: l’opera di Roman Opalka e On Kawara
L. Lecci
2020-01-01
Abstract
The essay deals with the artistic production by Roman Opalka (1931-2011) and On Kawara (1932-2014), leading personalities in the field of Conceptual Art, who devoted their whole work to a continuous and coherent reflection on time and memory. In the Sixties both the artists gave birth, each one in their own operative and expressive mode, to extremely rigorous artistic processes that coincided with the duration of their own existence, getting to an end only with their death.
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