JULIAN OPIE, LUC AND LUDIVINE GET MARRIED (PAIR 10), LUC AND LUDIVINE GET MARRIED SERIES, SIGNED MIXED MEDIA PRINT, EDITION OF 10, 2007
Luc And Ludivine Get Married (pair 10) is a mixed media piece from Julian Opie’s Luc And Ludivine Get Married series (2007) that shows two portraits of a man and woman, each with elliptical frames and blown domed glazing. The images are produced from cut black and white paper laminated together and resemble Victorian silhouette portraits.
Opie shows the portraits of the male and female figure in profile facing away from one another, the man turned to the left and the woman to the right. Typical of many of Opie’s portraits, Luc And Ludivine Married (pair 10) is rendered with the absolute minimum by which a person can be represented. Reduced to black and white bold lines, the images show the figures with dots for eyes and simple lines for their mouth.
The works in Opie’s Luc And Ludivine Get Married series show each figure in one of four poses, rendering them in different combinations of the poses thus making each composition unique across the series. This series is indicative of Opie’s desire to work with one idea across a number of different compositions, producing many versions of the same subject. Luc And Ludivine Get Married (pair 10) is a work that explores the act of looking and representation itself.
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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.
