• Questions for Mr. Julian Opie

    By Art World Magazine

     

    1. Your animation work is always related to environment, or we can say "invading" into the urban...

  • Julian Opie

     

    Hirofumi is the owner of a Tokyo-based fashion company. He asked if I would collaborate with his company to design some clothes. A group of designers from the firm...

  • Julian Opie

     

    I have around 35 artworks going, which are effectively focusing on the human figure. There are a few relating to landscapes, but most are centred on the human face...

  • Sandy Nairne

    Essential Portraits

     

    What is the essence of a portrait? What is the absolute minimum by which a person can be represented? What are the intrinsic elements...

  • Julian Opie

     

    I do wonder about these "light" interviews. I have done a few and I'm not sure what purpose they serve. "What is your favourite this or that?"...

  • Julian Opie
    SIGNS, 2006

    In 2000 I was commissioned to make a work for a Munich based insurance company. I used a local company to produce two large glass wall panels back painted with...

  • Julian Opie

     

    I had arranged to meet Clare in a pub on Cambridge Circus. She turned up looking very glamorous in a shimmering black evening dress. We drank gin and tonics and I...

  • Julie Morère

    "Impersonality and Emotion in Julian Opie’s /People/, /Portraits/ and /Landscapes/", /Impersonality and Emotion in...

  • Thomas Trummer
    GALERIE KROBATH WIMMER

     

    In the show, the model steps on to the catwalk to present herself in alluring poses in filmic movement, interrupted only by postures...

  • Excerpts from Julian Opie (J.O.)
    Tate Gallery publication, 2004
    Text by Mary Horlock,
    Available Tate Publishing
    www.tate.org.uk/publishing
    ISBN 1-85437-470-2

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