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Gerhard Richter
dal 11/2/2005 al 16/5/2005
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11/2/2005

Gerhard Richter

K20 Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf

A retrospective with 110 paintings and sculptures


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In recent decades, Gerhard Richter – who was born in Dresden in 1932, and is one of the most important artists of our time – has produced a wideranging and complex œuvre. Richter's painterly production encompasses both representational motifs and completely abstract images; gesticulative and intuitive works alternate with those purged of all emotion. Alongside work in various media, from overpaintings, Vermalungen, Verwischungen (based on blurring or smearing), to photography and graphics, Richter also produces sculpture. The central theme of all of his endeavors, however, is the medium of painting: its principles, limitations, and potentialities. At the same time, Richter poses the question of the degree to which painting and beholder are mutually implicated, and of the function accorded to the image: is it a prospect or vista, a gateway to another world, or perhaps a mirror, one in which viewers, in the end, confront themselves? In this context, the mirrors and panes of glass that are components of many important works beginning in the 1960s can be understood figuratively – as in the European tradition since the Late Renaissance – as a decisive agent of contrast for clarifying the function and significance of painting as a medium.

This comprehensive exhibition, comprising ca. 110 paintings and sculptures, was planned in close collaboration with the artist. A retrospective presentation, it features an exemplary selection of works drawn from all important phases of Richter's career, including paintings after photographs, Vermalungen, gray paintings, and abstractions. Also on display are panes of glass, reversed glass paintings, mirrors and several of Richter's sculptures, consisting of several layered transparent panes or partially reflective elements. The itinerary through the exhibition begins in the immediate vicinity of the permanent collections in the 2nd upper story of the K20 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz. Alongside paintings produced since the 1960s will hang recent and new and never previously exhibited works, including landscapes and representational motifs, as well as abstract compositions and gray paintings. The exhibition continues in the 1st upper story. Richter has devoted the so-called "American Gallery" to a suite consisting of outstanding examples of his powerfully chromatic abstractions. The tempestuous highpoint is found in the large ground floor gallery. Here, among other works, Richter presents his recent mural "Strontium" measuring more than 9 x 9 meters, and the ensemble "Acht Grau" (Eight Gray), premiered in Berlin in 2002, and now housed at Bilbao.

In the Rhineland, Richter's creative achievement was exhibited last in Düsseldorf's Kunsthalle in 1986 and in Bonn's Bundeskunsthalle in 1993/1994. A representative cross-section of his œuvre was offered by the epochal 2002/2003 exhibition, inaugurated in New York's Museum of Modern Art. This undertaking of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen represents the first comprehensive showing of Richter's works in Europe since that time. Among other distinctions, Richter was awarded the Staatspreis of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2000.

KPMG Art Evening
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005, 7:00 p.m.: Armin Zweite, Director of K20K21: Alles sehen, nichts begreifen. Zur Malerei von Gerhard Richter.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005, 7:00 p.m.:Hubertus Butin, Art Historian, Cologne: Gerhard Richter und Sigmar Polke – Eine Düsseldorfer Kuenstlerfreundschaft der sechziger Jahre.
Wednesday May 4th, 2005, 7:00 p.m.: Ortrud Westheider, Curator Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg: Gerhard Richters Wolkenbilder.

This exhibition is the official contribution of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia to Germany in Japan 2005/2006.

Image: Abstraktes Bild, 2004, Oel auf Leinwand,
225 x 200 cm, Wvz. 889-14, Privatsammlung,
© Gerhard Richter

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