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Loading... Gerhard Richter: Paintings from Private Collectionsby Götz Adriani
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Exhibition Gerhard Richter : paintings from private collections. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, 19. Januar bis 27. April 2008 . National Art Museum of China, Peking, 10 Mai bis 2. Juli 2008, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, 8 November 2008 bis 4. Januar 2009, Albertina, Wien, 24. Januar bis 3. Mai 2009, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, 16. Mai bis 16. August 2009 Anlässlich der Ausstellung Gerhard Richter. Bilder aus Privaten Sammlungen, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, 19. Januar bis 27. April 2008 . National Art Museum of China, Peking, 10 Mai bis 2. Juli 2008, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, 8 November 2008 bis 4. Januar 2009, Albertina, Wien, 24. Januar bis 3. Mai 2009, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, 16. Mai bis 16. August 2009] no reviews | add a review
Curator Robert Storr has said of the iconic, inscrutable German painter Gerhard Richter, "He's not playing hard to get, he's doing something that is hard to get.'' The difficulty arises from a Conceptualist oeuvre that style-jumps from Photorealism to large, abstract compositions. Martha Schwendener has summed up Richter's contribution by stating, "Seeing Gerhard's abstraction and Photorealism together, you realize that this dual body of work is the perfect expression of what it means to paint today--and what a contemporary master might be." Whatever the style, Richter's subject is always painting itself. Because it features more than 80 works from important private collections, including the artist's own, this monograph provides a unique contextualization of the artist's incredibly influential career, which, spanning more than 40 years, mirrors not only the history of postwar Germany, but also the medium of painting. No library descriptions found. |
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