Gerhard Richter Exhibition at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh
One of the greatest and most influential European artists of the last fifty years will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh this autumn.
Gerhard Richter: Paintings from Private Collections will be the second installment in the Bank of Scotland totalART series, the largest ever sponsorship of modern art in Scotland.
This will be the first time that such an exhibition has been seen in this country and the first large-scale survey of Richter’s work in the UK for nearly two decades.
Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter has done more than any other living artist to put painting back on the agenda for artists, critics and the public alike. Arguably, Richter is the world’s greatest living painter.
Bank of Scotland totalART: Gerhard Richter will offer an unrivalled overview of the artist’s career, bringing together over 60 paintings dating from 1963 right up to the recent past.
The exhibition will include works from virtually every period of Richter’s development, beginning with his iconic black-and-white, photo-based works (which earned him the label of German Pop artist), and ending with his magisterial, sensuously coloured abstracts of the 1990s and beyond.
GERHARD RICHTER:
PAINTINGS FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
8 November 2008 – 4 January 2009
NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLEX, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
0131 624 6200
Admission £6 / £4;Under 22’s and children free (12 years and under)
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