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.

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.

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Gerhard Richter