"Gerhard Richter turned 93 this year, and has still been hard at work. Though he officially gave up painting in 2017, with a final sequence of elaborate abstracts, he has recently been turning out small, exquisite, painterly works on paper. And now the full range of his very long career, from his breakthrough photographic paintings of the 1960s to last year's ink-cloud drawings,"
"The show is curated by two perennial Richter watchers: Dieter Schwarz, the former longtime director of Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Winterthur, and Nicholas Serota, the former longtime director of Tate. The two were suggested by Richter himself, when the Fondation Louis Vuitton approached the artist about doing an exhibition. The goal from the beginning, Schwarz says, was "to do a really comprehensive show" whose only constraint was the foundation's over 3,000 sq. m of Frank Gehry-designed gallery space."
"Richter has had a career marked by radical reinvention. His early photographic paintings-such as Uncle Rudi (1965), a blurred interpretation of a family snapshot, showing a smiling relative in Nazi-era military garb-now seem a world away from the brash 1980s abstract works made with the help of a squeegee. And these works, in turn, seem almost unrelated to the crystalline strip paintings of the early 2010s."
Gerhard Richter, now 93, continues to produce subtle painterly works on paper despite having ceased major painting in 2017. A 275-work retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris will present the full sweep of his career, from his 1960s photographic paintings to recent ink-cloud drawings. The exhibition is curated by Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota, nominated by Richter, and was assembled with wide access to public and private collections. Curators aimed for a comprehensive, strictly chronological presentation within the foundation's Frank Gehry-designed 3,000+ sq. m gallery space, highlighting Richter's continual reinvention across styles and decades.
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