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Since 2017, Richter has stopped painting, but he continues
to work regularly on drawing and watercolor. These works, sim-
pler in appearance, testify to an intact curiosity and great rigor.
They unfold in the exhibition like intimate breaths, revealing an
artist always in search, even when he chooses to move away from
monumental painting.
The Parisian exhibition, occupying all the spaces of the Fonda-
tion Louis Vuitton, allows us to measure the richness and cohe-
rence of this trajectory and marks the continuity of monographic
exhibitions, following Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, and
David Hockney. From the very first painting, «Table» (1962), to
the latest drawings, each stage appears as a challenge, an attempt
to redefine what painting can still produce in the age of visual
saturation.
What Richter reminds us, through six decades
of creation, is that the image is never a certainty,
it is always an enigma.
It is in this enigma
that the strength of his work lies.
Gerhard Richter, Kerze (Candle), 1982
(CR 511-1)
Oil on canvas, 95 x 90 cm. Collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne/
Rhône-Alpes
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