Artist field note

Gerhard Richter

Can we trust an image?

September by Gerhard Richter
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02 / 05

September

2005

A small blurred image of 9/11 resists spectacle. Catastrophe becomes difficult to see clearly.

The five in one idea

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