Visit Gerhard Richter

Just came back from the exhibition "Ausschnitt" (probably best translated in this context with "Extract") in the Neue Museum in Nuremberg. It shows a good selection of Gerhard Richter's work starting with a series of 31 monotypes (prints) from 1957 (see below) and 27 other images both figurative and abstract up until 2003. (As usual you can click through the images below to get to the large originals on flickr; just use "view all sizes" there).



An interesting aspect of his work is that he often used photographies (his own or from magazines) as original from which he painted. These images show a characteristic haziness like a blurred photo, which makes it quite obvious that the images were painted after a photo and not after a real life scene.

Sometimes Gerhard Richter covered those photographic images with an abstract layer of paint with only parts of the "original" image shining through. All-in-all a very interesting discourse about photography and painting making you think about the relationship of both art-forms.

Here's another picture from the exhibition showing other works:

 

The exhibition is open until February 22nd. Highly recommended!