Gerhard Richter
Gerhard RichterAbstract painting is a fictive model because it makes visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
Gerhard Richter is an artist whose work is an evasive action of sorts, a negative choice to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic.
Gray is uniquely capable of making 'nothing' visible. It is neither visible nor invisible. It makes no statement whatever and evokes neither feelings nor associations: Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate.
Gray makes no statement whatever... it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible.
Gray 1s 2nconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph.
Gray is an important color - the ideal color for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair, in other words for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.
The Mirror is like a painting in that it shows something that isn't there at all, at least not where we see it.
