(All photographs are property of centrephotogeneve.ch/)
77 year old, Gerhard Richter presented his collection, UERBERNALTE FOTOGRAFIEN / PHOTOGRAPHIES PEINTES (OVERPAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS) earlier this year at the Centre de la photographie, Geneva.
Richter “invites one to re-define the totality of his oeuvre - which oscillates between his figurative painting (which uses photography as its basic model) and his abstract painting - which reflects formal geometric abstraction as well as a much looser abstraction. By placing paint on photographs, with all their random and involuntary expressiveness, Gerhard Richter reinforces the unique aspect of each of these mediums and opens a field of tension rich in paradoxes, as old as the couple – painting / photography –which has largely defined modern art.” (http://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/)
Look at this stuff! It’s totally rad.
*winks,
Lady<3
