Gerhard Richter
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Abstract painting is a fictive model because it makes visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
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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.
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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.
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Gray makes no statement whatever... it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible.
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Gray 1s 2nconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph.
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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.
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The Mirror is like a painting in that it shows something that isn't there at all, at least not where we see it.