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Item Number: 105543
Title: GERARD RICHTER : Sils
Author: Obrist, Hand-Ulrich (ed) ; Peter Andre Bloch (text)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780955961359
Description: London: Ivory Press, 2009. 15cm., pbk., 86pp. illus., most in color. Multi-lingual text. Summary: Sils opened a new collection of small-format artist’s books published by Ivorypress and designed by the artists themselves. Sils, designed by Gerhard Richter, includes photographs taken and painted-over by the artist, as well as texts by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Peter André Bloch. ‘During Gerhard Richter’s regular stays in Sils, photos are continuously created which are partially repainted and which either become part of the collection of painting Atlas or are shown as autonomous works. In the repainted photos, levels of reality of photography are conjoined to levels of reality of painting, whereby the concepts realistic (with respect to the photographic level of depiction) and abstract (with respect to the non-representational repainting) turn out to be redundant due to the dissolution of categories immanent to panting. The reflection on the genuine and the counterfeit, a quick flare-up of the imaginary trompe-l’oeil as well as its immediate unmasking all in one: the eternal recurrence of the impossibility of the painting can be seen in an ostensible overcoming of the impossibility of depiction’. Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

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