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格哈德·里希特與布林奇·巴勒莫
描述
- Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo
- 《無題》
- 款識:兩位畫家簽名並紀年1970於各雙聯幅背面
- 油彩畫布,共兩對雙聯幅
- 各雙聯幅 59 x 128英寸;150 x 325公分
來源
Dr. Maria Siemer, Bochum
Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1999
展覽
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1985 (long term loan)
出版
Bernhard Kerber, Art International, no. 6/7, 1972, p. 144 (text)
Klaus Honnef, Gerhard Richter, Reckinghausen, 1976, p. 39, illustrated in color
Jürgen Harten, Gerhard Richter: Bilder/Paintings 1962-1985, Cologne, 1986, p. 379 (text), cat. nos. 303 and 304, p. 134, illustrated
Angelika Thill, et. al., Gerhard Richter: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1993, cat. nos. 303 and 304, illustrated in color
Thordis Moeller, Palermo. Bilder und Objekte. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 1, Bonn, 1995, cat. no. 151, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Maler, Cologne, 2002, p. 227 (text)
Gerhard Richter, "To the people…" Sprechen über Blinky Palermo, Cologne, 2003, p. 77 (text)
Christine Mehring, Blinky Palermo. Abstraction of an Era, New Haven and London, 2008, p. 210 and p. 211, illustrated in color
Christine Mehring, "Glühbirnen und Monochrome: Die Wahlverwandschaften von Richter und Palermo," Blinky Palermo. To the People of New York City, Düsseldorf and New York, 2009, pp. 73-4 and p. 72, illustrated
Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, and Jon L. Seydl, eds., Gerhard Richter. Early Work 1951-1972, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. 116-118 and p. 118, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Dia Art Foundation (and travelling). Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, 2010-2011, p. 21, illustrated in color (installation in Richter's studio)
Condition
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拍品資料及來源
Although Richter and Palermo had achieved widespread recognition and acclaim by 1971, both were consistently seeking new forms of artistic expression and focusing on the potential for further developments within painting during this period. Richter in particular had been experimenting with an astonishingly diverse range of styles during the late 1960s alongside his photo-realist works, moving from the vivid hues of the Farben to the monochromatic splendor of the Grau paintings in an attempt to transcend objectivity in art and move towards a more definitive ideal of abstraction. Collaboration with Palermo on Untitled and other joint creations seemed to inspire Richter with an added impetus towards non-objectivity, arguably anticipating the remarkable Abstraktes Bilder produced during the most recent part of the artist’s career. Though younger than Richter, Palermo had been working within an abstract idiom since his student days under the tutelage of the venerable Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, rapidly moving beyond the perceived limitations of paint on canvas to create his series of Stoffbilder - visually arresting works made from symmetrical portions of colored fabric. The association with the younger artist seemed to galvanize Richter in his quest for new challenges within painting, sparking a creative and personal relationship that was of profound importance for both. Richter later recalled the elements that bound the two artists together despite seemingly disparate stylistic beginnings: “Because we were so different, we didn’t compete with each other. I always appreciated the way he could create something that seemed so silent. That was all foreign to me… We could really just speak about painting. The main thing was about the surface of colour or the proportion of colour.” (cited in Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, A Life in Painting, Chicago, 2009, p. 182) Ultimately, Untitled stands as an extraordinary record of an artistic collaboration of pure brilliance: a work of immense rarity and extraordinary importance within the oeuvres of both Richter and Palermo that deserves to be recognized as a tour-de-force of sheer technical virtuosity and imaginative power.