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review: This is the one to see.
Whether you know a great deal about Gerard Richter or very little, this exhibit
should not be missed. The Cage is just one of many different series. But let
this major retrospective suprise you........................... Richter has seen the art world change throughout his long career and he comments that 'the art world is more entertainment than it was in the past'. But the artist obviously understands the role of the visual arts in today's society and his work slips neatly into this world as he demonstrates with a somewhat unassuming an incredibly perceptive and wise insight.
TATE MODERN Tate Modern Exhibitions Gerhard Richter: 6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career. Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings. Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.
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German artist Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932. He has exhibited at major institutions internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York that awarded him a retrospective, curated by Robert Storr, in 2001, and has represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. He is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today, and his works sell for colossal prices at auction. He lives and works in Cologne. The Cage Paintings were conceived as a single coherent group, and displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Their titles, Cage (1)-(6), pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-1992). In his 'Lecture on Nothing', Cage famously declared "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it." Richter is equally suspicious of ideologies and any claim to absolute truth. He shies away from giving psychological interpretations to his paintings, preferring to allow viewers and critics to make up their own minds. Leading critic Robert Storr considers the importance of The Cage Paintings within Richter's practice and within the wider context of abstract art. A series of extraordinary, detailed photographs document the development of each painting, day by day, and show the artist at work on these monumental canvases, giving unique insight into his working methods. Robert Storr is Dean of the Yale University School of Art and was formerly a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is the author of Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting and Modern Art Despite Modernism, among many other publications. |
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January 8, 2012 
Founded in 1975, Brazilian contemporary dance company
Grupo Corpo and choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras have attracted high praise from both
critics and audiences for colourfully reinventing classical ballet as an exuberant and
rhythmic dance form, infused with Brazilian dance rhythms. 
