Louise Lawler: The Gerhard Richter Photographs

ISBN-13: 9783829605816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 56 str.

Tim Griffin

Opis

This volume appears in honor of Gerhard Richter's 80th birthday. His world-renowned oeuvre consists in large part of photorealistic paintings. The book contains 21 works by American artist and photographer Louise Lawler, who examines how Gerhard Richter's paintings are handled within the context of museums, commercial galleries, auction houses, and in private and public collections. Taken over a period of twenty years, her images focus on Richter's paintings in situ or in transit to exemplify the way in which modern art is handled on the various levels of the contemporary art scene. The clear, colorful, always frugal, and near minimalist composition of her photographs corresponds in a singular way with Richter's subdued paintings, which also have their origins in photography, resulting in a sort of media reflection, in a subdued echo, as it were.

O autorze

Dietmar Elger, geboren 1958 in Hannover; 1978 - 1984 Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg, 1984 Promotion mit einer Arbeit über den "Merzbau" von Kurt Schwitters.
1984 - 1985 Sekretär im Atelier von Gerhard Richter. 1985 - 1988 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, seit 1989 Kustos für Malerei und Skulptur am Sprengel Museum Hannover, Organisation zahlreicher Ausstellungen zur modernen und zeitgenössischen Kunst. 1998 Kurator der Ausstellung "Gerhard Richter. Landschaften".