Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings 2009.
Catalogue of the Exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery New York, 2009
12/2009
Collab:: Benjamin H. Buchloh
2009. 100 p. w. 56 col. ill. 30,5 cm
"Abstract Paintings" ist eine umfassende Darstellung der Werke Gerhard Richters von 2005 bis 2009. Es enthält den wichtigen neuen Zyklus Sindbad von 2008 sowie eigenständige mittel- bis großformatige abstrakte Gemälde. Präsentiert wird auch eine neue Gruppe großformatiger, nahezu monochromer Ölbilder, deren unterliegende Farbschichten von durchsichtigen Schleiern weißer Farbe überlagert werden. In seinem Essay "Das Weiße und das Leere: Die letzten Gemälde vor den letzten", spürt der renommierte Kunstwissenschaftler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh dem historischen und ästhetischen Bezugssystem Richters abstrakter Gemälde nach und ordnet dessen neue Arbeiten in den größeren Kontext der reduktivistischen Malerei der Nachkriegszeit ein. *****
On view will be a major representation of works made by the artist from 2005 to the present, including an important new cycle of paintings titled Sindbad , 2008 as well as individual paintings presenting medium to large format abstractions, and a new group of large scale near-monochrome paintings whose underlying chromatic structures are layered by translucent veils of white paint. The exhibition will be the most recent presentation of the artist's work in New York since his solo exhibition at Marian Goodman NY in 2005.
During the past two decades Gerhard Richter has made several important cycles of abstract paintings. The current exhibition follows on other recent series of abstract works by Richter, including the Silicate paintings of 2003; the Cage paintings of 2006, conceived as a single coherent group and first displayed in 2007 at the 52nd Venice Biennale curated by Rob Storr; and a recent group of white abstract works exhibited at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris in 2008.
On view will be a major representation of works made by the artist from 2005 to the present, including an important new cycle of paintings titled Sindbad , 2008 as well as individual paintings presenting medium to large format abstractions, and a new group of large scale near-monochrome paintings whose underlying chromatic structures are layered by translucent veils of white paint. The exhibition will be the most recent presentation of the artist's work in New York since his solo exhibition at Marian Goodman NY in 2005.
During the past two decades Gerhard Richter has made several important cycles of abstract paintings. The current exhibition follows on other recent series of abstract works by Richter, including the Silicate paintings of 2003; the Cage paintings of 2006, conceived as a single coherent group and first displayed in 2007 at the 52nd Venice Biennale curated by Rob Storr; and a recent group of white abstract works exhibited at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris in 2008.
A fully illustrated catalogue, Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings, 2009 will be published on the occasion of the exhibition and will include a new text by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art History at Harvard University. The catalogue will also include full-color reproductions of the exhibition. In his essay, Buchloh traces the historical and aesthetic framework of Richter's abstract paintings and considers the artist's recent white non-representational works within the larger context of a postwar trajectory of reductivist painting in the US and Europe.
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Ausstellungskataloge; Kunst Marian Goodman Gallery (New York) New York; Museen Richter, Gerhard