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Imagine you are driving fast Jacques by Julian Opie

Imagine You Are Driving (Fast)/Jacques Julian Opie

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This signed digital print from 2002 is a limited edition of 50 from Julian Opie’s Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) series. Showing a portrait of the Canadian Formula 1 driver Jacques Villeneuve alongside an image of an open racetrack, this print is typical of Opie’s pared-back style that uses thick bold lines, simplified shapes, block colours and minimised features.

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JULIAN OPIE, IMAGINE YOU ARE DRIVING (FAST)/JACQUES, IMAGINE YOU ARE DRIVING (FAST) SERIES, SIGNED DIGITAL PRINT, EDITION OF 50, 2002

Imagine You Are Driving (Fast)/Jacques is a digital print from Julian Opie’s Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) series from 2002, showing a portrait of the Canadian Formula 1 driver Jacques Villeneuve alongside an image of an open racetrack. The portrait of Villeneuve is typical of Opie’s pared-back style that uses thick bold lines, simplified shapes, block colours and minimised features.

The large expanse of tarmac on the right side of the print takes up about two thirds of the print, showing white lines and track markings that follow the rules of perspective to the slightly off-centre vanishing point. By pairing the portrait of Villeneuve with the racetrack landscape, the viewer is immediately made aware of who’s viewpoint we are seeing in the landscape.

Although the human presence is made clear in this print, Opie’s highly abstract and depersonalised style works to create the effect of a contemporary videogame, inviting the viewer to imagine their own virtual journey on this racetrack. Throughout the Imagine You Are Driving (Fast) series Opie works to create a slick, computer-generated image surface, Opie allows for a level of disengagement with the scenes. This level of depersonalisation subsequently invites the viewer to project their own personal emotions, memories and ideas onto the scene, thus filling in the blanks of the narratives that are to be read in Opie’s works.

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ABOUT JULIAN OPIE

British artist Julian Opie challenges traditional approaches to portraiture through his digitally designed and seemingly contradictory, depersonalised works. Working also with landscapes and cityscapes, Opie’s highly stylised work involves the reduction of photographs or short films into figurative reproductions created using computer software. The hallmarks of his artistic style are portraits and animated walking figures, rendered with minimal detail in black line drawing. Learn more about Julian Opie.