The eight panels by Richter are in varnished glass, mounted on steel supports hung 50 cm from the wall and installed to correspond with the gallery’s windows, which have been ‘uncovered’ for the occasion and substituted with panels of transparent glass – the result is a series of infinite reflections where the panels created by the German artist reproduce endlessly views of the interior and the street, creating a confusion between real and pictorial space.
The choice of the ‘non colour’ grey, which for Richter symbolises nothingness, represents a further negation of the possibility for association, differentiation or interpretation. It remains rigorously illusionist, to use the words of the artist himself, who renders his ‘Eight Greys’ both abstract and figurative at the same time.
until 5.1.2003
Gerard Richter: Acht Grau
Guggenheim Berlin
http://www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de
