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4,900 Colors

Gerhard Richter German

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4,900 Colors presents a modular series of enameled squares, produced by mixing the three primaries in graduated amounts to expand the number of hues and tones. Richter turned to calculated chance, employing a digital program for the random selection and distribution of colors. The artist produced   196 unique panels, each nineteen inches in length and width and composed of twenty-five colored squares. The panels can be displayed in eleven different spatial configurations: from   196 individual units to one huge integrated billboard. This iteration, a unique version, features   140 panels arranged in five rectangular units. The specific position of the individual panels is also deliberately arbitrary, making the chromatic distribution slightly different each time the work is installed.

4,900 Colors, Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden, 1932), Enamel paint on aluminum [Exhibition copy]

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4,900 Colors, Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden, 1932), Enamel paint on aluminum [Exhibition copy]
4,900 Colors, Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden, 1932), Enamel paint on aluminum [Exhibition copy]

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