GERHARD RICHTER: NEW YORK 2023 by Gerhard Richter

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David Zwiner

This highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richters first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richters last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture.

[His last paintings] can feel almost like exquisite texts to be read. . . . Their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning. Roberta Smith, The New York Times

Known for his abstract and realist paintings, Gerhard Richter has pursued a diverse and influential practice characterized by a decades-long commitment to the medium and its formal and conceptual possibilities. This remarkable book celebrates the breadth of Richters newest bodies of work and archives a historical moment in the artists career.

Full-color plates and installation views showcase a selection of the artists final works on canvasmade just before he announced his retirement from oil painting in 2017alongside an expansive suite of new drawings made with ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, a remarkable series of chromatic inkjet prints titled mood, and a stunning glass sculpture that debuted at the exhibition in New York. A newly commissioned essay by Dieter Schwarz, one of the foremost experts on Richters oeuvre, illustrates the artists path toward his newest bodies of work. Schwarz describes Richter in his studio, revealing the creative process behind his iconic practice.