The Met’s Short-Lived Experiment With the Breuer Ends With an Eclectic Six-Decade Career Survey of Gerhard Richter. See Images Here

While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we
are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was
previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to
give you a virtual look. 

“Gerhard Richter: Painting After
All“
Met Breuer 

What the museum says: “Devoted to one of
the greatest artists of our time, ‘Gerhard Richter: Painting After
All’ considers the artist’s six-decade-long preoccupation with
the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the
material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting.
Spanning the entirety of Richter’s prolific and innovative career,
the exhibition presents more than 100 works that focus on his
specific commitment to the medium, as well as his related interests
in photography, digital reproduction, and sculpture.”

Why it’s worth a look: As one of the
hallmark exhibitions of the Met’s 150th anniversary lineup, this
marks something of a swan song for the 88-year-old artist, and for
the Met Breuer itself, which will soon be turned over to the Frick
Collection during its renovation.

This is the first major US display Richter’s work in almost 20
years, and includes two series that haven’t ever been shown in the
country. The series at first appear as total opposites: one is an
homage to John Cage, the experimental composer who used chance to
dictate his work; the other, titled “Birkenau,” is based on the
only known photographs of the Nazi concentration camp, taken by
prisoners within the walls. This duality is at the crux of
Richter’s practice, where he works out his thoughts and feelings on
broad issues of societal ills, politics, and cultural memory, just
as he does with his own family and experiences.

What it looks like:

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