{"id":6916,"date":"2014-06-16T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T07:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:36:45","slug":"our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Our report from ArtBasel 2014 starts from a fabulous Gerhard Richter at Fondation Beyeler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6916 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/annunciation-after-titian-verkundigung-nach-tizian\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_343_1_30x18-cm-480x297.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6917\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6917'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Verk\u00fcndigung nach Tizian, 1973 Oil on canva, 125 cm x 200 cm. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1994\u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/annunciation-after-titian-verkundigung-nach-tizian-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_344_2_30x18-cm-480x287.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6918\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6918'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Verk\u00fcndigung nach Tizian, 1973. Oil on canvas, 150 cm x 250 cm. Private collection. \u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/foto-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/foto1-e1402902196403-360x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6971\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6971'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Verk\u00fcndigung nach Tizian, detail from the exhibition&#8217;s catalogue.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/foto-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/foto-1-e1402902085161-360x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6969\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6969'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Verk\u00fcndigung nach Tizian, detail from the exhibition&#8217;s catalogue.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/foto-2-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/foto-2-e1402902116331-360x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6970\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6970'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Verk\u00fcndigung nach Tizian, detail from the exhibition&#8217;s catalogue.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/davos-davos\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_468_2_30x210-cm-480x344.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6919\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6919'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter\nDavos, 1981\nOil on canvas, 70 cm x 100 cm. Stefan T. Edlis Collection \u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/skull-schadel\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"138\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_548_1_30x33-cm-440x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6920\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6920'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter\nSch\u00e4del, 1983.\nOil on canvas, 55 cm x 50 cm\nCollezione privata destinata in prestito al Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden\n\u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/betty-betty\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_663_5_30x43-cm-333x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6921\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6921'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter\nBetty, 1988, Oil on canvas, 102 cm x 72 cm.\nSaint Louis Art Museum.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/reader-lesende\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_804_30x21-cm-480x336.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6922\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6922'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Lesende, 1994, Oil on canvas, 72 cm x 102 cm. San Francisco Museum of Modern \u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/s-with-child-s-mit-kind\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_827_5_30x36-cm-399x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6923\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6923'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter\nS. mit Kind, 1995.\nOil on canvas, 61 cm x 51 cm\nHamburger Kunsthalle, Dauerleihgabe der Stiftung f\u00fcr die Hamburger Kunstsammlungen\n\u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/ella-ella\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P_903_1_30x38-cm-371x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6924\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6924'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Ella, 2007\nOil on canvas, 40 cm x 31 cm. Private collection.\n\u00a9 2014 Gerhard Richter.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/16\/our-report-from-artbasel-2014-starts-from-a-fabulous-gerhard-richter-at-fondation-beyeler\/foto-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/foto-e1402867675854-360x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6963\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6963'>\n\t\t\t\tGerhard Richter, Pictures\/Series, installation view. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the big power in the art system is the capability of placing the artwork always in its ideal environment, the current retrospective show dedicated to Gerhard Richter&#8217;s \u201cpictures and series\u201d at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel is the last evidence that the artist from Dresden is, nowadays, not only a very expensive dream for top collectors, but also someone who can make a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rarely the public will have the extraordinary occasion of seeing these \u201cseries\u201d gathered together setting parallels between the two branches of Richter&#8217;s art practice, that is figurative and abstraction. And rarely the public will have the occasion of having them in such a perfect setting, side by side with masterpieces by artists who have deeply influenced Richter such as Claude Monet, Paul Klee and, of course, Pablo Picasso. Three key adjectives will be enough to understand in which way: horizontal, grey, colourful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course the series dedicated to the Annunciation Tiziano painted for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice has particularly captured our attention. The five pieces are currently dispersed among various collections. Richter saw the painting live in 1973, on occasion of his exhibition at the German pavilion for the Venice Biennial. Then he stated: \u201cI just wanted it for myself, for my apartment, so I decided to copy it, as far as I could. But I couldn&#8217;t even manage a semi-presentable copy. So then I painted five variations on the Annunciation that didn&#8217;t have much to do with Titian&#8217;s Annunciation but that I was quite happy with\u201d. Is this the real meaning of the artis&#8217; process of abstraction? Could a painted abstraction of something be just a way to posses it so to be \u201cquite happy with\u201d? So this is how things apparently go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If the big power in the art system is the capability of placing the artwork always in its ideal environment, the current retrospective show dedicated to Gerhard Richter&#8217;s \u201cpictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[590,797,1546],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-gerhard-richter","tag-pablo-picasso","tag-tiziano-vecellio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}