A series of detailed photographs documenting the development of Gerhard Richter’s Cage paintings.

The Cage paintings were conceived as a single coherent group and displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Their titles, Cage (1–6), pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–92). In his ‘Lecture on Nothing’, Cage famously declared 'I have nothing to say and I’m saying it'. Richter is equally suspicious of ideologies and any claim to absolute truth. He shies away from giving psychological interpretations to his paintings, preferring to allow viewers and critics to make up their own minds.

In this book (published in French), leading critic Robert Storr considers the importance of the Cage paintings within Richter’s practice and within the wider context of abstract art. A series of extraordinary, detailed photographs record the development of each painting, day by day, and show the artist at work on these monumental canvases, giving unique insight into his working methods.