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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE european Collection DANIEL RICHTER (b. 1962) GEDION signed, titled and da...

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE european Collection DANIEL RICHTER (b. 1962) GEDION signed, titled and da...
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE
european Collection
DANIEL RICHTER
(b. 1962)
GEDION
signed, titled and dated
"Daniel Richter 2002, Gedion"
oil, ink and lacquer on canvas
1201/2 x 1331/2 in. (306 x 339 cm)
executed in 2002
ESTIMATE: $40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE
Contemporary Fine Art, BERLIN
Exhibition
Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, EXHIBITION OF THE SHORTLISTED ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE PRIZE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY FOR YOUNG ART 2002, May 16-July 7, 2002
Düsseldorf, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, Daniel Richter, Grünspan, October 12, 2002-January 19, 2003

LITERATURE
J. Heynen, ed., DANIEL RICHTER: GRünspan, Bielefeld, 2002,
pp. 66-67 (illustrated)
J. Heiser, "A Tangled Web," Frieze.com, 2003, n.p. (mention)
In his painterly "language," Daniel Richter uses a whole variety of complex signs that make the space between fixed meanings into the actual locus of the painting. He uses his canvases to collect forms and figures that have associations ranging from documentary photography and journalistic reportage to art history, which combine his many interests on social issues, politics, cultural phenomena, popular music and magazines. He combines informative and expressive props, imbuing his paintings with an astonishingly powerful presence, situated somewhere between commentary on current issues and remembered genre pictures. Richter uses paint on a canvas surface to conjure up illusions of time and space. Richter's canvases also contain references to other artists, including Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and Eugène Delacroix. By virtue of the seductive coalescence of photo-reportage and pictorial emotionalism plus the classical, large format of his compositions, Daniel Richter's paintings have often been discussed in the light of 19th-century history painting. But unlike the latter, Richter's paintings have no ideological credo to fall back on, existing instead in their own right as hybrids of reality and emotion, materiality and simulation. The gestures and colors in the paintings, in Richter's GEDION, for instance, reveal the passion of its making, and provide the viewer with a new, authentic picture of a painterly phenomenon which he or she can add to the fund of images that describe the world. Like Richter, viewers can enrich their own experience with that of others - and it is the contradiction on canvas between these two spheres that forms the real substance of these paintings.