Gerhard Richter Opens 26-Painting 'Landschaften' Show at David Zwirner in New York
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 11
Gerhard Richter Opens 26-Painting 'Landschaften' Show at David Zwirner in New York
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 11
Summary
Twenty-six works anchor “Gerhard Richter: Landschaften” at David Zwirner, a New York exhibition spanning 20th-century paintings that argues for how to live amid 21st-century uncertainty.
Richter, 94, fills the show with blurred views of sea, mountains, fields and sky that invoke the Romantic sublime while staying static and clouded, reflecting his long engagement with history’s political ruptures.
Several works are actually Richter’s “abstract pictures,” where painted gestures are scraped back with a squeegee, extending the exhibition’s theme of doubt, negation and revision.
Loans from major public and private collections include paintings not seen in the United States for decades, giving the show unusual historical reach as Richter’s once-startling style has become canonical.