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Abstract Painting
Gerhard Richter German
Not on view
The almost deranged exuberance of color, gesture, and facture could qualify this painting as an explosion but may equally signal an implosive assault on the medium, as though painting had turned in on itself. A watershed work, it signals Richter’s awareness of both the perpetually unresolved purpose of painting and the risk that the luscious chroma of his canvases might be reduced to spectacle. It seems not accidental that Richter recently turned to this painting as the source for his most radical departure from the craft, subjecting it to a procedure of digital division, symmetrical mirroring, and doubling that generated the Strip series (2013–15), an example of which is on view on Floor 3.
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