Gerhard Richter Painting After All is divided into 20 themes over 60 years of artistic creation. From his monochrome photograph paintings in the 1960s to current digital abstract painting. The viewer will also see photos and sculptures in this show such as Mirror, Blood Red (1991) and House of Cards (2020).
11 panels 2004
On each floor you will find at least one glass piece. Glass is an ideal carrier of Richter’s concept: how to balance the representative and the abstract. For instance, the viewer will experience multiple blurred self-reflection in 11 panels (2004). In this jade color work, you’ll find a similar effect as have been painted in his 1960s semi-abstract representative paintings. In the Birkenau paintings area, the works are installed in an enclosure space, with a strong spotlight reflected on the panels torturing the already covered misty characters depicted in the paintings. Beside them is the giant steel toned horizontal mirror piece Gray Mirror (2018). The stifling effect is also great at absorbing the audience into a frozen and gloomy zone, the quality of the reflection is similar to silver gelling photos.
Gray Mirror 2018
The curators highlight the glasses chosen in Richter’s art, he digs out the reality that as a tool or material how glass distorted our sight to see the world.
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