Louise Lawler And/or Gerhard Richter

Translated: Our book sees itself as a homage to Gerhard Richter, whose 80th Birthday is celebrated in February 2012. Richter's now world-famous works, largely inspired scenic transformations of photographic images, the American artist and photographer Louise Lawler, born in 1947, a series of a special kind: Your gathered here 21 works from two decades of talk about it, as in the painting by Gerhard Richter museums, commercial galleries, auction houses and presented in private and public collections staged, and reception is. Using selected Richter paintings, either in situ or in transit, we learn a lot about dealing with modern art on the different levels of the contemporary art. The sharp, colorful, almost minimalist compositions of Lawler's photographs correspond to the judge also photograph thematizing, supercooled and paintings lead to a kind of media duplication, to a cool echo, so to speak. Tim Griffin, long-time editor of Art Forum and most recently chief curator and director of the exhibition venue The Kitchen in New York, wrote the introductory essay. - from publisher's description.