Julian Opie The Complete Editions Volume 1: 1984 - 2011

"Every artwork has a story – references, choices made, decisions made in order to avoid failure, jumps, leaps, changes, compromises. I start with a plan and watch it twist and turn. The form may change, the image or the materials may change. All this flexibility then meets the art world and its traditions." Julian Opie

Julian Opie's highly distinctive depictions of the modern world are created in an extraordinary variety of media; this publication, volume one of the artist’s catalogue raisonné of editioned work, charts the development of his practice from 1984 to 2011.

Commentary on each project by Opie guides the reader through his early very reductive landscapes and portraits, to silhouettes, animations, lenticulars and LED animations.

This momentous publication, the first in an ongoing series, also features a foreword by Alan Cristea and an essay by former director of Ikon Gallery, Jonathan Watkins entitled Stripping, or The Pragmatism of Julian Opie, which describes the artist’s methods and inspirations.

Featuring 272 pages with colour illustrations and full documentation of 169 limited editions and over 150 unlimited editions.

Publisher: Cristea Roberts Gallery
Published: 2011

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