Gerhard Richter: Eight Gray

Berlin and New York: Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin; Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. Cloth, 127 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Text in English. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, October 11, 2002 to January 5, 2003. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Gerhard Richter is arguably the most important German artist of the post-war period. He was known as a practitioner of the German variant of Pop art, "Capitalist Realism," in the sixties and seventies. But the artist has always straddled the concerns of both the Pop artists and the Minimalists. In recent years, some of his works have been totally abstract, deconstructing pictorial conventions, as in this commissioned work, "Eight Gray," a series of pieces utilizing mirrored surfaces. The installation is interpreted by the Marxist critic and art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, who is the leading champion of Richter's work. A lavish publication. "Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin will present Gerhard Richter: Eight Gray, a new commission project consisting of eight monumental mirrored panels. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Richter has become known for his manipulation of various pictorial conventions. His diverse production, which includes sculptural objects and paintings and ranges from landscapes to monochromes, is characterized as a whole by the artist's steadfast investigation of the nature of looking. Throughout his career he has experimented with the concept of the perceptual frame and, consequently, windows and mirrors; the commission for the Guggenheim grows out of a series of works Richter first conceived in the mid 1960s. The hazy reflections of the artist's series of enameled glass panels articulate the viewer's fleeting relationship to the real while referencing a long history of attempts to depict it on canvas and on film. Gerhard Richter's Eight Gray is the eighth commissioned work Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.