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| Gerhard Richter, 'Abstrakt bild 894-7', 2005 (this painting may be in the show) |
Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the
history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had
been members, as well as victims of, the Nazis, as well as canvases reminiscent
of images of the bombing of Dresden. In 1988 he produced the 15-part work 'October
18' 1977, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader
Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in
history; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting
of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.
Alongside works responding to historical events, the show presents many
of Richter’s most ambitious abstract paintings from his 1974 colour chart
containing 4096 different coloured squares, to his 20-metre long 'Stroke' of
1980, presented for the first time outside Germany, to the magisterial and
richly coloured 'Forest' squeegee paintings of 1990 and culminating in the
hauntingly beautiful six-part series 'Cage' from 2006 on long loan to Tate.' Gerhard Richter: Panorama is curated by God himself, Tate Director Nicholas Serota and Mark
Godfrey.
Bonjour David, la toile que vous présentez ici de Gerhard Richter illustre parfaitement le peintre, il va au plus loin, funambule, jusqu'aux extrêmes limites du laid et du beau, à ne plus savoir ce qui est laid et ce qui est beau, il dit ainsi comme Bossuet : qu'un corps parfait est fait d'imperfections. Il y a de la magie dans sa peinture, elle vit.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Thige and also he makes it look so easy! the photos of him with his squeegee pulling/pushing the paint across the surface, yet there are many layers and nuances beneath..true genius..
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