"Traces of Time"
Julian Opie
The exhibition is the second presentation in the context of “Sculpture 21st” supported by the Stiftung Kunst, Kultur und Soziales der Sparda-Bank West.
presenteb by the gallery :
KROBATH
Eschenbachgasse 9 A-1010 Wien AUSTRIA
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Lehmbruck Museum
Düsseldorfer Str. 51, 47051 Duisburg, GermanyT: +49 (0)203 283-3206 F: +49 (0)203 283-3892 email :
5 June > 15 September, 2019
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British artist Julian Opie is a master of rigorous simplification. As a co-founder of the New British Sculpture movement, he belongs to a group of artists who developed new and far-reaching impulses for sculpture from the 1980s onwards. His paintings, computer animations and sculptures play with the codes and conventions of popular everyday culture.
Opie populates the glass hall of the Lehmbruck Museum with his larger-than-life “Walking Figures.” Striding across the glass hall, they are duplicating the movements of passers-by on the street. The latter automatically stop in mid-stride to look at their doppelgangers in the museum space. Even though they don’t know these persons, they seem familiar.
Using the current visual language of logos and pictograms, Julian Opie creates a repertoire of signs that can be grasped visually in a matter of seconds. He succeeds in giving the seemingly anonymous visual language of advertising a personal face. Under its surface of smoothness and perfection, the postdigital world opens up to emotions and private moments that will remain imprinted in our memory.
Opie populates the glass hall of the Lehmbruck Museum with his larger-than-life “Walking Figures.” Striding across the glass hall, they are duplicating the movements of passers-by on the street. The latter automatically stop in mid-stride to look at their doppelgangers in the museum space. Even though they don’t know these persons, they seem familiar.
Using the current visual language of logos and pictograms, Julian Opie creates a repertoire of signs that can be grasped visually in a matter of seconds. He succeeds in giving the seemingly anonymous visual language of advertising a personal face. Under its surface of smoothness and perfection, the postdigital world opens up to emotions and private moments that will remain imprinted in our memory.
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Julian Opie |
Opening :
5 June 2019 at 7 pm.
The artist will be present.
The artist will be present.
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Single: 9 € / 5 € reduced *
Families: 15 € (2 Adults and Children under 15)
Children under 15 accompanied by their relatives and accompaniment of blinds are free.
Annual ticket: 35 € / 20 € (*)
Classes and kindergarden groups per capita: 2 €
* Reduction for: Booked groups, Guides with groups of 20 or more, Disabled persons (from 70 percent), Pupils & students, Welfare recipients
Every first friday of the month is valid: “pay what you want”. Except booked groups.
Opening Hours :
Tuesday to Friday: 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On plastikBAR Thursdays the whole museum will be open until 9 p.m.
Admission :Tuesday to Friday: 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On plastikBAR Thursdays the whole museum will be open until 9 p.m.
Single: 9 € / 5 € reduced *
Families: 15 € (2 Adults and Children under 15)
Children under 15 accompanied by their relatives and accompaniment of blinds are free.
Annual ticket: 35 € / 20 € (*)
Classes and kindergarden groups per capita: 2 €
* Reduction for: Booked groups, Guides with groups of 20 or more, Disabled persons (from 70 percent), Pupils & students, Welfare recipients
Every first friday of the month is valid: “pay what you want”. Except booked groups.
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