Gerhard Richter: Patterns: Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
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From Bookforum This book is an ample testament to Richter's rigorous focus and totalizing sensibility, one that's yielded many encyclopedic projects. Pausing to study any one spread can be vertiginous and rewarding: The intricate beauty feels at once machined and biomorphic. —Albert Mobilio Read more Review "… My friend bought a painting, and he bought me a good reproduction--a wonderful poster. And it attracted me. I started to play with a mirror. I doubled and shrank and divided and mirrored and divided. It was like a gift which I didn't design. I like it a lot when I get something by chance… It's very decorative. I am fascinated by [composer] John Cage, and he says it well: "I have nothing to say, so I say it"…People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people. Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things." (Belinda Luscombe Time)Lacking "the time and quietness" that he needs for painting, he said, he indulged in a mentally relaxing game of chance, which he has documented in a dazzling, text-free book, "Patterns" (Distributed Art Publishers). (Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker) Read more
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Reviews
The idea that unfolds in this book can change the way you see things. It is a remarkable scientific art experiment and a stunningly beautiful vision. Gerhard Richter is one of the most inventive and thoughtful artists of our time. His work turns what we thought we knew into something we never dreamed we would every see. This is a compact dense book where every page is full rich color. One image unfolds to remarkable depth, reminding me of the way fractals work, always having a common thread or unit as the root of each image. It's really fun to sit and look through - very much the experience I had when I first looked through the book Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe. This book, fractals and "Powers of Ten" all embody this unfolding into the inner workings of an image and, thus, also make me think of how I can look into the inner parts of my body, mind and soul. Really worth the price.
