LUX GALLERY

Opiemme

Desassossego (Restlessness). 2020

550 EUR

Acrylic, ink and marker on Claire Fontaine paper 250 gr - 115 lbs
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs

Nothing is real. 2021

550 EUR

acrylic, and marker on Lana paper 220 gr - 100 lbs
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs)

Isolated. 2021

550 EUR

Acrylic, extract of olive on Lana paper 220 gr - 100 lbs
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs)

Divided. 2022

550 EUR

Acrylic, ink and marker on Lana paper 220 gr - 100 lbs
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs)

(Hy)ipnotic. 2020

550 EUR

Acrylic, extract of mahonia and sambucus nigra berries on Claire Fontaine paper 250 gr - 115 lbs.
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs)

Nulla (Nothing). 2021

550 EUR

Markers on Claire Fontaine paper 250 gr - 115 lbs
14,8 x 21 cm - 5 13/16 x 8 ¼
sold with frame (size: 21 x 30 x 2cm - 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ - weight 0.4 kg, 0.9 lbs)

About

Opiemme's practice investigates the boundaries between words and images, looking for new ways of presenting poetry.

The artist is heir to an important twentieth-century tradition of visual poetry and connected to those avant-garde that have used text and language-based art.

The Lux Gallery presents selected artworks from the latest abstract series "Beyond Clouds".

Opiemme practice has been dominated by calligrams and a legible text-based art

but in recent works the artist fuses words and abstract imagery.

Opiemme's handwriting is not calligraphy, it distorts and dissolves the words into emotions and movements, without creating an alphabet, it wants to bring poetry through form beyond form.
Since 2000 Opiemme's research has been focused on public art aimed at spreading poetry to the public, with collective performances, installations and street poetry interventions.

This led Opiemme to perform in different European cities in collaboration with various poets' foundations with the aim of creating new opportunities for reading, as for the mural painted for the Fernando Pessoa and Josè Saramago Foundations in Lisbon, or a 12 story facade dedicated to Wisława Szymborska poetry in Gdansk.

SOLO SHOWS

2021
"GIOVA VRTX 4 - 7 - 66", Portanova12 Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2019
"In Limine Mundi", Burning Giraffe Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
2016
"Heart-shaped box", Pinacoteca Modigliani, Follonica, Italy
2015
"Vortex", Portanova12 Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2011
"No Flags V.01", Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain

FAIRS & GROUP SHOWS

2021
Stadtpiraten exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019
Affordable Art Fair, Febo & Dafne Gallery, Milano (Italy), Bruxelles (Belgium)
2016
Urban Art Fair, Portanova12 Gallery, Paris, France
2015
Swab Fair, Portanova12 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2015
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2014
Bienal del Fin del Mundo, 5th edition, Mar del Plata, Argentina
2011
KM011, Natural Science Museum, curated by Luca Beatrice, Torino, Italy
2007
Nuovi Arrivi, Belle Arti Academy, Torino, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

2020
Edoardo Di Mauro, Paola Russo, Una dimensione etica: storia e presente dell’arte pubblica, Prinp
2017
Daniele Tozzi, Words into shapes, The graphic art of calligram, Monsa Publications
2015
Nicholas Ganz, Street messages, Dokument Press Distribution
2015
Luca Beatrice, Imago Mundi Praestigium Italia, Contemporary artist from Italy, Fabrica (Benetton collection)
2014
Clara Isabel Martínez Cantón, Cuestiones Métricas. La Rima y el Estribillo, Punto Rojo Libros S.L.
2011
Luca Beatrice, Km 011. Arti a Torino. 1995-2011, Allemandi
2007
"Incroci", with Tina Sgrò, Dieffe Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

SELECTED PUBLIC ART

2018
Public art for the Fernando Pessoa and Josè Saramago Foundations, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
Mural tribute to Guido Gozzano and Cesare Pavese, Torino, Italy
2017
“Remanufacture & Harring”, murals for Urban Forms, Lodz, Poland
2016
Collective performance and mural for Urban Forms, Lodz, Poland
2016
Street poetry for Gunter Grass Festival, Gdansk, Poland
2016
Permanent neon-light installation for Museo Magma, Follonica, Italy
2015
Migrazione, installations for Teatro delle Rocce, curated by Karin Gavassa, Gavorrano, Italy
2015
"Intralci" performance, with Gianluca Petrella, Ambriajazz, Castionetto di Chiuro, Italy
2014
StreetScape, public installation, Como, Italy
2014
Mural for Monumental Art Fest, tribute to Wisława Szymborska, Gdansk, Poland
2013
Street poetry murals and installation, Italy, 2013
"A journey through painting and poetry, “Breaking apart, recombining, stretching and spreading the written letterform, the public poetic paintings were conceived to be site-specific and included walls and pavement installations across Italy from north to south, including Torino, Bologna, Rieti, Pizzo Calabro, Faggiano (Taranto), Ariano Irpino, Menfi, Genova, Tirano (Sondrio), and finally Rome. The artist is about plumbing the fine lines between public art, street art, and the written word to bring poetry out into the open." The Huffington Post, 2013
2008
"A polite display of power“, performance, Torino, Italy
2007
"Traffic kills", installation, Madrid, Spain

Online Art Gallery for contemporary abstract art, showcasing artworks

Opiemme

Desassossego (Restlessness). 2020

Nothing is real. 2021

Isolated. 2021

Divided. 2022

(Hy)ipnotic. 2020

Nulla (Nothing). 2021

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