until Sunday May 29 2016

Museum Frieder Burda
T : +49 (0)7221 / 3 98 98-0
Lichtentaler Allee 8b
D-76530 Baden
Germany

The exhibition focusses on abstract works by Gerhard Richter, including famous pictures such as “10 Farbtafeln“, “Wellblech”, “Vorhang” and “Sternbild”. The highlight of the show is Richter’s group of four “Abstrakte Bilder (WZ 937 1-4)“, which were not created until 2014 and are based on photographs taken in 1944 in Birkenau concentration camp.

The selection of works addresses the question of how contemporary artists use abstraction to realise their artistic ideas and record the “indescribable” or portray the “unportrayable”. The exhibition also looks at our perception and our emotions, as triggered simply by forms and colours and going beyond the depiction of objects that exist in reality.