Tate modern_ Gerhard Richter :Panorama

Tate modern_ Gerhard Richter :Panorama
6 October 2011 - 8 January 2012

gerhard richter, self-portrait, 1996.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals. Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

_Text for catalogue of documenta 7, Kassel, 1982
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writing, Interviews and Letters 1961-2007. Thames & Hudson, london, 2009, p. 121

EXHIBITION

From The Cloud Triptych not seen for decades: Gerhard Richter 'Cloud', (1970) 

courtesy National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario © Gerhard Richter

Room 6 _ Exploring abstraction" Richter's Mirrors provoke questions about their relation to painting. Though their images are not fixed, they are 'like painting', according to Richter, because they 'show something that isn't there at all, at least not where we see it."

I am really surprised about his huge amount of works. Also He did various kinds of works including still-life, portrait, land scape and abstract.  He has no boundary. 


His abstract paintings' size was amazing. 'The Cloud' was one of my favorite painting in this exhibition. It seems like there is really big cloud just infront of me. The size of painting is vital to give shock to viewers. 


Through this exhibition, I could see how he had been worked to make his style of art. 

Betty (1988)

Meadowland (1985)

http://cinemawithoutborders.com/reviews/2835-gerhard-richter.html

Painting and Photography have a common thing which people can see past things. People can keep the images which is going to vanish.

  

The moment

The time

Artist put his or her idea into the painting; however, still, painting and picture represent human being's desire that wan to keep something which will be gone, and cannot have back. 

He does drawings combine with pictures. It was interesting to see it. It was like he put his thought into a moment(picture).