Hubertus Butin: Gerhard Richter – Unikate in Serie

by Richter, Gerhard; Butin, Hubertus; Olbricht, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9783864422003
• ISBN10: 3864422000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-04-03
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

Summary

Gerhard Richter’s unique pieces in series

At first glance, the phrase »unique pieces in series« seems to be a contradiction in terms. How can something that supposedly exists only once be present several times? Yet, some of Gerhard Richter's editions embody this particular principle of uniqueness in series. In painting editions, photographic works, prints, drawings and multiples, Richter developed a way of varying individual pieces within their respective identical production method. An entire edition thus consists of unique variants that are deliberately different. There is probably no other artist who applied this creative concept in such a fascinatingly diverse way as a fundamental method within their art. The book will be published on April 7, 2017 on the occasion of the exhibition »Gerhard Richter. The Editions« at Museum Folkwang in Essen.

Exhibition »Gerhard Richter. The Editions«:
Museum Folkwang Essen, 7/4–30/7/2017

Author Biography

Gerhard Richter, born 1932, is named as one of the most influential living artist of our time. He increasingly participate in the art world dialogue, discussing topics like the future and purpose of art. He is maifold awarded, some prestiogus prizes are Oskar Kokokschka Prize (1985I, Kaiserring Goslar (1988), Golden Lion of Venice Biennale (1997), and Praemium Imperiale, Wsxner Prize (1998), Membership of The Amercian Adademy of Arts and Sience (2004), honory citizen of Cologne (2007), and member of the Amerrican Philosophy Society (2012). He exhibited amongst others 2018 at Museum Barberine Potsdam, 2017 Museum Folkwang Essen, 2014 Tate Britain London, 2013 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, 2012 Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, 2009 Haus der Kunst Munich, MoMA New York 2002.

Hubertus Butin, born 1964, is a German art historian and curator, he lives in Berlin. Since the 1990s his relationship is fruitful for his curatorial and scientific work, he curated the esxhibitions Gerhard Richter and the Romantianticism in 1994, in 2004 Gerhard Richter. Printed! at Kunstmuseum Bonn, in 2012 Gerhard Richter Editions 1965–2011 at Me Collectors Room in Berlin – Stiftung Olbricht. He is editor of the Catalog raisonné Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965–2013 (revised ed.), of the Begriffslexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst (2014, Snoeck), books about Imi Knoebel, KP Brehmer, and the Graphics of the Capitalist Realism. He is currently finalizing his book about art forgery, which will be presented at the Frankfort bookfair 2019.