Roman Opalka
“The fundamental basis of my work, to which I have dedicated my life, manifests itself in a process of recording a progression that both documents time and also defines it. It began on a single date in 1965, the one on which I undertook my first ‘Detail’. Each ‘Detail’ is a part of a greater idea conceived on that date. My work records the progression to infinity, through the first and the last number painted on the canvas.”
