The Man Who Knew Infinity

"Roman Opalka, the French-born Conceptualist painter based in France and Italy, died on Aug. 6 near Rome, after a brief illness, just three weeks before his 80th birthday. A key figure in the Conceptualist movement during the mid-1960s, Opalka was fixated on the notion of infinity. His obsessive, lifelong project was to paint the numerals consecutively, one to infinity. Beginning in 1965 in his Warsaw studio, he devoted his life to carrying out the plan."


Full Obituary from Art in America here.