Name: Old Street Walkers: Curly Hair
Brand: Julian Opie
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Old Street Walkers: Curly Hair

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About the Item

Julian Opie Old Street Walker: Curly Hair, 2022 is a lively depiction of a featureless man casually strolling across the 2D plane. Pulling inspiration from a range of genres and time periods, Opie employs the minimal, yet bold black line drawings that are reminiscent of cave paintings, classical portraiture, Japanese woodblock prints, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and traffic signs, while simultaneously recognizing the aesthetic appeal of blending contemporary symbols and emojis. The simplified figure in Old Street Walkers: Curly Hair nonchalantly strolls by, his hands deep in his jacket pockets, his feet reduced to thick white masses that mimic movement. Opie places a mirror before his audience and reduces them to simplified figures that break away from normality and become part of a communicative study that brings the many forms of language and movement alive. From the sides, the walking people reveal their shapes and their dignity – they are not posing or addressing the viewer and instead are just passing by, their lives as enigmatic as the walker appears to be. Taking advantage of lenticular printing, a medium that utilizes the 19th-century invention of lenticular lenses, to produce the illusion of depth and movement. Situated behind the lenses are at least two or more related images divided into thin vertical strips, with each group of strips presenting a frame of animation. Each of Opie’s lenticular acrylic panels include approximately twenty images that appear to transform into one another to generate a figure walking endlessly on a loop. Thus, when a viewer walks past these works of art, their movement is mimicked in the print. Seeking a way to encapsulate the human form, Opie lands on the simplified imagery used to differentiate between male and female restrooms; a symbol that no doubt maintains the same meaning regardless of orientation, a standardized representation of the human figure. Opie’s figures are a combination of family, friends, anonymous passersby and conjured up personalities. Though the basic form for each figure is essentially the same, Opie maintains “a sense of individuality with the multiplicity” by providing the characters with names, outfits, and individual movement. Much of Opie’s work is reliant on the engagement of the viewer, who must activate the work through their movement in the space and watch as the image transforms before their eyes. Created in 2022, Julian Opie Old Street Walker: Curly Hair is a lenticular acrylic panel mounted onto white acrylic that is hand-signed by Julian Opie (London, 19558 - ) in ink on verso and is numbered from the edition of 50 in ink on verso.

Creator:
Julian Opie (1958, British)
Creation Year:
2022
Dimensions:
Height: 47.25 in (120.02 cm)Width: 28.5 in (72.39 cm)
Medium:
Lenticular
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Palo Alto, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 80551stDibs: LU1567212147092

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