Taking its starting point from two recent series, which draw on photographs from Birkenau and the work of the composer John Cage, this show asks why the German painter has persisted in two contrasting genres – photorealism and abstraction – throughout his long career. Find out more from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.
Preview the exhibition below | View Apollo’s Art Diary here
Birkenau (2014), Gerhard Richter. © Gerhard Richter 2020
Cage 4 (2006), Gerhard Richter. © Gerhard Richter 2020
Uncle Rudi (1965), Gerhard Richter. © Gerhard Richter 2020
I.G. (1993), Gerhard Richter. © Gerhard Richter 2020
A year after the blast, Beirut is in crisis – but look hard, and there are small signs of hope