Artist field note

Gerhard Richter

Can we trust an image?

October 18, 1977 by Gerhard Richter
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October 18, 1977

1988

Fifteen blurred paintings revisit the Baader-Meinhof deaths. History appears as memory: partial, mediated, unresolved.

The five in one idea

Richter made uncertainty - between photograph and painting, fact and memory - one of contemporary art's central conditions.