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We were in charge
of the press relations for the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections).
This exhibition comprises three rooms of new
works by Gerhard Richter from his current series of strip
pictures and glass objects, most of which were created specifically
for this show.
For his Strips series, begun in 2011, Richter uses one of
his own earlier works as point of departure and source material.
He digitally dissected his 1990 Abstract Painting (724-4)
into 4,096 sections, and mirrors, multiplies and recombines
these details, finally printing them as pictures composed
of horizontal stripes, in various formats up to 10 metres
in length. These works bear witness to the unceasing creativity
of this artist, who was born in Dresden in 1932. Using computer-controlled
image-making processes to reinterpret his own abstract painting,
Gerhard Richter thereby achieves surprising pictorial inventions.
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