Gerhard Richter

Tate Modern, London

Panorama. The major retrospective exhibition highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings. 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. In conjunction with the exhibition, Tate Modern presents a new documentary by filmmaker Corinna Belz, Gerhard Richter Painting, that offers rare insights into the artist's work.

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Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist's 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.

Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.

Gerhard 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 Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, 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 throughout his career; 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.

Lovers of the epic beauty of Rothko, Twombly and Hodgkin will have much to enjoy, as will those who appreciate striking portraiture or the crystal-clear precision of photorealism.

Talks and discussions:

Wednesday 5 October 2011, 18.30–20.00
Chance and Intention: Gerhard Richter's Abstractions
Talk by Benjamin HD Buchloh

Benjamin HD Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University and co-editor of the journal October. Buchloh has written about Richter’s work since the 1970s and has published important interviews with the artist. He recently edited a collection of essays on Richter for the October Files series of books. Buchloh won a Golden Lion for art criticism at the Venice Biennale in 2007. His talk ‘Chance and Intention: Gerhard Richter’s Abstractions’ offers an insightful perspective on Richter’s work.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

Monday 24 October 2011, 18.30–20.30
Monday 5 December 2011, 18.30–20.30
Curator’s Talk: Gerhard Richter

Spanning nearly five decades, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major chronological retrospective that groups together significant moments of this remarkable painter’s career.
Join one of the exhibition’s curators for an expert’s view on Richter’s abstractions, subtle landscapes, colour charts, works on paper, mirrors and three important glass constructions.
Tate Modern In the exhibition
£20 (£16 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

Symposia:

Friday 21 October 2011, 10.30–20.00
Panorama: New Perspectives on Richter

Tate Modern presents a major symposium dedicated to new voices on Gerhard Richter. International scholars and the curators of the retrospective will present on significant moments of this remarkable painter’s career. Speakers include Julia Gelshorn, Susanne Kuper, Julia Friedrich, Rosemary Hawker, Luke Smythe, Hen Stanford, Aline Guillermet, Mark Godfrey, Briony Fer, Lynne Cooke and Nicholas Serota. The event closes with an evening keynote talk by Kaja Silverman whose 2009 book Flesh of My Flesh includes an important discussion of the artist.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions), booking required
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

Films:

Thursday 6 October 2011, 18.30
Sunday 9 October 2011, 15.00
Sunday 16 October 2011, 15.00
Sunday 23 October 2011, 15.00
Gerhard Richter Painting, Corinna Belz, Germany 2011, 97 min

In conjunction with Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern presents this acclaimed new documentary by filmmaker Corinna Belz, to whom Richter granted access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009 while he was working on a series of large abstract paintings. Gerhard Richter Painting offers rare insights into the artist’s work. In quiet, highly concentrated images, the film offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective as Richter exposes his studio and working process for the first time in decades. Belz captures the 79-year-old artist in all of his intensity, providing a striking and intimate exposé into the artist’s working environment and his celebrated approach to painting.
In addition, Hannes Reinhardt’s short documentary In the Studio – Gerhard Richter (In der Werkstatt – Gerhard Richter, Germany 1969, 14 min) will be screened.
The screening on 6 October will be followed by a conversation between Corinna Belz and Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions)
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

Tate Modern
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Image: Gilbert, George, 1975. Oil on canvas, support, each: 684 x 631 x 45 mm, painting. © Gerhard Richter

Tate Modern
Bankside - London
Opening hours: Sunday – Thursday, 10.00–18.00
Last admission to special exhibitions at 17.15
Friday – Saturday, 10.00–22.00
Last admission to special exhibitions at 21.15
Admission: £14, £12 concessions

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