contessanally: Venice: Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Roman Opalka - Mariateresa Sartori

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Venice: Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Roman Opalka - Mariateresa Sartori – Telling Time

Venice - Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Roman Opalka - Mariateresa Sartori

Telling Time

Milan and Venice pay homage to the late Franco-Polish artist Roman Opalka, with Telling Time an exhibition in two chapters curated by Chiara Bertola. At the Fondazione Querini Stampalia museum, until November 24, a nucleus of works by Mariateresa Sartori – with whom the artist had formed an intense relationship in Venice – are also on show. Sartori, interested in neuroscience, music and language, works initiate a dialogue with Opalka’s, through their common research on the themes of time, duration and contingency, and the shared search for something visible capable of expressing the invisible.

Mariateresa Sartori

All Those Who Come, Piazzetta in St. Mark’s Square, for 1 minute and 7 seconds on Februry 26th – 2006

realized site-specific – 2019

http://www.querinistampalia.org/eng/dire_il_tempo_roman_opaka_and_mariateresa_sartori_may_7__november_24_2019.php

artist Mariateresa Sartori

Photograph Michele Alberto Sereni – courtesy Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Lenz Schönberg Collection, Austria

Both exhibitions revolve around Opalka 1965/1-∞, the project to which the artist dedicated much of his life. For the very first time, the first and last Details are being presented together: the first from the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, is on its debut showing in Italy, while the last, unfinished canvas comes from a private collection and has never been exhibited before now.

Roman Opalka – Opalka 1965/1 - ∞

Detail 5603154 – 5607249 - 2010-2011

acrilic on canvas, 196x135 cm