Julian Opie Imagine You are Driving at Night (3) 1993 Acrylic on wood, glass and aluminium. 93 × 122.5 cm (36 5/8 × 48 1/4 in). Signed 'Julian Opie' in pen on label adhered to the reverse. This work is unique.
Provenance Lisson Gallery, London. Exhibited London, Hayward Gallery, Julian Opie 4 November 1993-6 February 1994; Kunstverein Hannover, Julian Opie 26 February-17 April 1994 Literature M. Horlock, Julian Opie London, 2004, p. 59 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay With Imagine You Are Driving at Night (3) (1993), Julian Opie offers a modern take on the traditional genre of landscape painting. Instead of picturesque views, en-plain-air painting, or the depiction of glittering reflections of light in vibrant paint, the contemporary landscape is a more mediated experience. Opie's cool, detached pictorial rendition returns landscape to the western tradition of painting by offering a window to the outside world, but, by presenting our envisioning of nature to simulate the graphics of a computerized video game, he updates it to reflect our contemporary experience. This work belongs to a group of twelve landscapes shown in the Hayward Gallery's 1993 retrospective of Opie's work. Read More
Julian Opie Imagine You are Driving at Night (3) 1993 Acrylic on wood, glass and aluminium. 93 × 122.5 cm (36 5/8 × 48 1/4 in). Signed 'Julian Opie' in pen on label adhered to the reverse. This work is unique.
Provenance Lisson Gallery, London. Exhibited London, Hayward Gallery, Julian Opie 4 November 1993-6 February 1994; Kunstverein Hannover, Julian Opie 26 February-17 April 1994 Literature M. Horlock, Julian Opie London, 2004, p. 59 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay With Imagine You Are Driving at Night (3) (1993), Julian Opie offers a modern take on the traditional genre of landscape painting. Instead of picturesque views, en-plain-air painting, or the depiction of glittering reflections of light in vibrant paint, the contemporary landscape is a more mediated experience. Opie's cool, detached pictorial rendition returns landscape to the western tradition of painting by offering a window to the outside world, but, by presenting our envisioning of nature to simulate the graphics of a computerized video game, he updates it to reflect our contemporary experience. This work belongs to a group of twelve landscapes shown in the Hayward Gallery's 1993 retrospective of Opie's work. Read More
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