Deconstructing Gerhard Richter Mania, Postmasters Offers a Playful and Surprisingly Affecting Essay in Exhibition Form. Gerhard Richter, that German hero of brainy painting, is in the process of being canonized by both art history and the contemporary art market.
“The art world always needs a clear top end,” observed dealer Thaddaeus Ropac to Art+Auction magazine after the artist’s photo-based paintings began to hit individual auction marks of $15-20 million. “The art market instinctively decided Richter should be the one.” But what exactly makes Richter suitable for the task of leading the upper echelons of contemporary art? Such is the question posed by Postmasters gallery’s archly critical exhibition “Richteriana,” which, rather than poking fun at the master’s work, honestly examines how the canonical current has removed Richter’s oeuvre from its original context and turned his name into a stock ticker label to watch rise and fall.
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