Gerhard Richter
06 October 2011 - 08 January 2012
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| © Gerhard Richter, Reader, 1994, oil on linen, 72 x 101 cm
Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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GERHARD RICHTER
Panorama
6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
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.
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