1025 THE COLOR

Louisiana Postcard with the work 1025 Farben , 1974 by German artist Gerhard Richter. 1025 Farben was shown at Louisiana's 2005 exhibition, Gerhard Richter - Picture After Picture, and is today a major work in Louisiana's collection.

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Few artists are as broad and diverse in their work and use of the countless possibilities of the image as Gerhard Richter. His starting point is often photography. Not because Richter wanted to be a photographer, but photography as a starting point for image formation.

Ordinary color cards became a direct inspiration for Gerhard Richter throughout the 60s and 70s. Richter's color field paintings belong to the part of his work where he is interested in construct pictures.

At first he used the color cards as a template, just like with the photos he had already worked intensively with. But gradually he developed a systematic approach based on the consistent principle of randomness - which also comes through here in 1025 colors .

This also applies to a much later work, the almost infinitely long digital print, Strip, S tribe from 2013, where stripes have replaced squares as a motif in a systematization of colors. Strip is also in the Louisiana collection today.

See also the poster with the same work here

L: 18 cm x H: 15 cm