Gerhard Richter Reader 1994© Gerhard Richter Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Gerhard Richter Cage 4 2006 (CR:897-4)Tate. Lent from a private collection 2007 © Gerhard Richter
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.
Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist’s work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.
Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.
Info: 6th October 2011 – 8th January 2012
Tate Modern, Level 4 Supported by The Eisler Foundation, The Richter Exhibition Supporters Group and the American Patrons of Tate
Admission £12.70 (£10.90 concessions) or £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) including Gift Aid Open every day from 10.00 – 18.00 and late night until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday.
Reviews:
Gerhard Richter sees his way to a place among the greats: Jonathan Jones at The Guardian
The greatest art exhibitions of 2011: The Daily Telegraph
Gerhard Richter Abstract Painting 1990 CR:724-4 Private Collection © Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter Mustang Squadron 1964 (CR 19)Private Collection © Gerhard Richter
