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Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, Gagosian

09 Apr 19 – 08 Jun 19, Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 6pm

Gerhard Richter's experiments with paint-smeared photographs come to Gagosian in an exhibition dripping with colour

By CW Contributor on 3/4/2019

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Gerhard Richter, MV. 94, 2011 Lacquer on colour photograph
Gerhard Richter, MV. 94, 2011 Lacquer on colour photograph
Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, Gagosian Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, Gagosian Emily Spicer
For Gerhard Richter photography poses a problem. The photographic image is a flat, insubstantial thing, barely there, a shadow of reality with a perfectly featureless surface. Paintings, on the other hand, are meaty, textured things. Representational or abstract, they are objects in their own right. Richter has spent his entire career trying to reconcile these two mediums. He is famous, in fact, for his hyper real paintings of photographs, blurred as though seen through a camera lens or smudged with squeegees while the paint is still wet. For Richter, it seems, the material substance of paint is all-important.


An exhibition at Gagosian explores the German artist’s experiments with paint applied directly to the photographic surface. One series of photographs was taken in the run-up to his retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011. They capture the ebb and flow of visitors throughout the course of a single day, and are over-painted with marbled swirls of colours. White is used when there are just a few people in the galleries, and bolder colours indicate growing crowds. Through gaps in the paint we glimpse figures that we might have missed, or ignored – moments hidden in a sea people.


Richter is an iconic artist and the chance to see his work in the intimate environment of Gagosian is an opportunity not to be missed.



What Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, Gagosian
Where Gagosian Davies Street, 17-19 Davies Street, London, W1k 3DE | MAP
Nearest tube Bond Street (underground)
When 09 Apr 19 – 08 Jun 19, Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 6pm
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information



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