Roman Opałka

Roman Opałka (1931–2011) was a Polish-French conceptual artist best known for his monumental life project 'OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞', in which he spent decades painting successive integers from one onto a series of canvases, documenting the passage of time and the inevitability of death. His rigorously systematic practice bridges conceptual art and existential philosophy, treating painting as a meditative record of human mortality. Opałka is regarded as one of the most significant figures in European conceptual art of the late twentieth century.