Gerhard Richter: Strip (3817)

Gerhard Richter: Strip (3817)
RICHTER, GERHARD
1932 Dresden

Title: Strip (3817).
Date: 2011.
Technique: Digital carbon print on card.
Mounting: Mounted on aluminium Dibond under glass.
Depiction Size: 32 x 91cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and inscribed on the back of the frame. Here additionally with edition label.
Publisher: Joe Hage, London (publisher).
Number: Printer's proof 5/5.
Frame: Artist's Frame (105 x 53cm). Not examined out of frame.

This work is a printer's proof outside of the edition of 72 copies.

A unique edition in which each copy has its own colour palette.
It is based on a detail from the 1990 work 'Abstraktes Bild' ('Abstract Picture'), which has been divided into 4,096 segments. The number on the back of the edition label identifies the respective section. Our work is one of five test prints, in this case section no. 3817.

The work is listed under Editionen (Editions) on the artist's official website. (www.gerhard-richter.com)

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Butin, Hubertus/Gronert, Stefan/Olbricht, Thomas (ed.): Gerhard Richter - Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern 2014, cat. rais. no. 148

- Gerhard Richter has topped the Kunstkompass rankings for years
- Unique, as each copy in the edition has a different colour scheme
- The complex rhythm of the stripes gives the work a shimmering dynamism

Structure of a digitally specified color scheme
The copies of the “Strip” edition will be produced in 2011 as multicolored inkjet prints on cardboard. The abstract image structure consists of color stripes of varying widths arranged horizontally across the entire surface. The variety of colored intervals and the resulting complex rhythm of the stripes lend the image surface a shimmering dynamism that, at least when viewed up close, does not allow the eye to rest.
Gerhard Richter did not compose these serial graphics; they therefore do not show a coloristically planned order, but rather the structure of a digitally specified color scheme. Instead, he had the motif of his 1990 oil painting “Abstract Picture” broken down on the computer into 4096 vertical color stripes, each only 0.08 millimeters wide. After selecting a single stripe, it was mirrored horizontally countless times until a geometric pattern of long, horizontal stripes emerged. The number on the back of each individual print indicates which segment of the painting was randomly selected by the artist. Each copy in the edition has a different color scheme, as it is based on a different segment and is therefore unique.
Hubertus Butin

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Gerhard Richter
Germany
Abstraction
Capitalistic Realism
New Realism
Post-War Art
Prints
2010s
Colour
Print
Carbon print
Abstract