Waldhaus (P18), 2004 - 2018
Chromogenic print mounted on aluminium, numbered 185/200 and stamped Heni Productions 2004 on the back
142 x 98 cm
55 29/32 x 38 37/64 in.
PROVENANCE
Art Publishing, Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland
Private collection, Lyon region
The original 2004 work is listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné under number 980-1. The present work, which was conceived after the 2004 work, is listed in the catalogue of Heni productions under the number P18.
Waldhaus (P18) - house in the forest - brings to the fore these questions of the blur between photography and painting. The atypical framing does not allow a full view of the house, which may be located in Hahnwald in the south of Cologne, where he settled in the 1990s with his new partner Sabine Mortiz.
A German artist who has achieved international recognition, Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. His work is polymorphous, oscillating between the figurative and the abstract, and using different mediums. He lived successively in free Germany, Nazi Germany and then in the Soviet Union. In 1959, while attending Documenta II in Cassel, West Germany, he discovered the works of Jackson Pollock, Jean Fautrier and Lucio Fontana. This was a turning point, as he decided to move to the West to join the City Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, a progressive art school and fertile ground for informal art and soon Fluxus. The two works presented here are prints of oil on canvas by the artist who has been exploring the relationship between the photographic image and painting since the beginning of his career, notably through the use of blur.
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