Derived from Gerhard Richter’s eponymous oil on canvas from 2006, ‘Haggadah’ (2014) is characterised by tantalising and exciting passages of yellow, grey, red, green and blue. Published as a chromogenic print by HENI, ‘Haggadah’ is entrancing for its seemingly endless layers of mesmerising paint and changing...
Based on Gerhard Richter’s eponymous painting from 1990, ‘Abstraktes Bild’ is a chromogenic print published by HENI in 2014. Produced through Richter’s signature use of a squeegee to distribute colour across the surface, this image is dominated by acid chromatic contrasts of reds, blues and...
Born out a practice of destruction was Gerhard Richter’s ‘Cage’ series of six paintings from 2006. Invigorated by the dynamic bodily movements of the artist, Richter’s monumental ‘Cage’ canvases are rich in texture and captivating in their depth of colour. Emotive, layered and full of selected accidents, the ‘Cage’ series pays tribute to the great experimental composer John Cage (1912-92). Richter...
In his celebrated ‘Flow’ series from 2013, Gerhard Richter lent artistic autonomy to his paints. On a flat surface he poured vibrant enamel paints and allowed the pigments to mix, effectively creating unrestrained compositions. Once the paints achieved the desired effect, Richter placed a glass sheet over them, freezing these interactions in a moment in time...read more
Gerhard Richter’s ‘Flow (P15)’ (2016), a facsimile print after a painting from the eponymous 2013 series, displays large fields of deep green, pink and yellow, streaked with white and black strokes. A strikingly dynamic composition, this work nonetheless conveys subtle representational suggestions, its wild colour interactions recalling powerful waves or raging storms. The kinetic figuration was composed through Richter’s application of enamel paints onto a surface, which were subsequently allowed to freely move and mix...read more
In 2009, Gerhard Richter produced the oil on canvas ‘Blumenstrauß’, a compelling contribution to his iconic photo paintings series. The artist projected a photograph of a sparsely filled vase of seemingly lifeless flowers onto the canvas, painstakingly replicating the colours as he painted over the projection. Yet, Richter did not reproduce the photograph exactly, instead employing his signature blurring effect to abstract the image in a manner reminiscent of an unfocused camera...read more
