Bidspirit auction | Gerhard Richter: Vorhang

Gerhard Richter: Vorhang - RICHTER, GERHARD 1932 Dresden Title: Vorhang. Date: 2012. Technique: Inkjet-Print behind acrylic glass. Depiction Size: 205 x 195cm. Notation: Numbered and signed verso: 1/25 Richter. Here additionally with edition label. Publisher: Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie e.V., Berlin (publisher). Number: 1/25. Frame: Artist's frame. The edition was based on the painting 'Vorhang III (hell)' (cat. rais. no. 56) from 1965. The work is listed under Editionen (Editions) on the artist's official website. (www.gerhard-richter.com) Provenance: - Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (label) - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Literature: - Butin, Hubertus/Gronert, Stefan/Olbricht, Thomas (eds.): Gerhard Richter - Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern/Cologne 2013, cat. rais. no. 153, p. 325, ill. - True-to-scale transfer of the iconic 1965 painting 'Vorhang III (hell)' into an edition - Impressive format with a three-dimensional effect - The painting is part of the collection of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums An autonomous, singular subject In 2012, Gerhard Richter turned his attention to a motif he had painted in oil in 1965 under the title “Curtain III (light)”. Although the inkjet print, created almost five decades later, is based on this painting, the artist had the large-format graphic mounted behind Plexiglas, giving it a glossy surface and thus clearly distinguishing it from the painting. The image shows a structure of vertical, alternating light and dark stripes, which conveys the idea of the plastic drape of a curtain. As an optical illusion, the print shows the simplest conceivable illusionistic representation of a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface, suggesting a tangible physicality of the fabric. Since the stripes cover the entire surface, the outline of the representational motif corresponds to the outline of the image carrier, so that both coincide and appear as one, which further enhances the illusion. In this optical illusion, the curtain becomes the image and the image becomes the curtain. Here, the textile no longer stands for veiling and unveiling, for showing and hiding, as in the paintings of the Old Masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but has become an autonomous and sole subject. Hubertus Butin Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue Gerhard Richter Germany Abstraction Capitalistic Realism New Realism Post-War Art Prints 2010s Artist's frame Space Multiple Inkjet-print Colour