ART-PRESENTATION: Gerhard Richter, Black & White Drawings
Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. During a career spanning almost fifty years, the astonishing range of his work has become a defining characteristic, with painting at the centre of his development. Within that medium his scope and output have been prodigious and as a result Richter is seen by many as the greatest living painter.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Marian Goodman Gallery Archive
Gerhard Richter has explored painting through a rich and diverse range of ideas that has spanned realist works based on found images and photographs, abstractions made with a squeegee, two and three dimensional glass works, abstract drawings, and overpainted photographs made from images of daily life. In the exhibition “Paintings and Drawings” at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, the artist presents works spanning five years, including: a new cycle of “Abstraktes Bild”, (2014-2015) a new group of abstract drawings (2015), works from the “Aladin” cycle of paintings under glass (2010) and new overpainted photographs (2014-2015). The new cycle of 40 abstract drawings were created in the spring of 2015, and can be considered “Non preparatory studies for painting but rather a kind of finale, which can be understood in relation with the introduction, crescendo, development and conclusion of the painting sequence” as says Dieter Schwarz, who organized the retrospective of drawings at Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 1999.
Info: Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, Duration: 7/5-25/6/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00, http://mariangoodman.com
