The Overpainted Photographs: A Comprehensive Catalogue
Gerhard Richter
£600.00
Edited by Joe Hage and Hans Ulrich Obrist, this landmark publication offers the most comprehensive account of Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted Photographs, a body of work he began creating in the mid-1980s and developed over the following decades.
The illustrated six-volume edition, housed in an elegant slipcase, features contributions from esteemed cultural voices, including world-renowned curator of contemporary art Hans Ulrich Obrist; distinguished art critics/curators Robert Storr and the late Achim Borchardt-Hume; literary giants Siri Hustvedt and Botho Strauss; as well as prominent art historians Dorothée Brill, Stefan Gronert, Aline Guillermet, Christine Mehring, Paul Moorhouse and Uwe M. Schneede.
The Overpainted Photographs, drawn mostly from the artist’s personal snapshots, depict landscapes, cityscapes, family moments and travels. Using oil paint or lacquer, Richter employs techniques such as pressing photos onto paint, flicking droplets and applying paint with squeegees or spatulas. The dialogue between the smooth photographic surface and the tactile texture of the paint − marked by gaps and ripples − invites associations with patterns, shapes and colours, ultimately challenging our perception of the captured reality.
Publication:
December 2024
Illustrations:
1908
Dimensions:
260 x 220 mm
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
978-1-911736-16-5
No. of pages:
2464
Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany and lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and then the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His work has been the subject of exhibitions internationally, including touring retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. Richter has experimented with photography, drawing, printing, sculpture and, notably, painting. Aided by the diversity of his media, the artist has continuously examined the nature of imagery, highlighting in particular the contingency of representation.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format.
The first volume comprises essays from Achim Borchardt-Hume, Dorothée Brill, Stefan Gronert, Aline Guillermet, Siri Hustvedt, Christine Mehring, Paul Moorhouse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Uwe M. Schneede, Robert Storr and Botho Strauss.
