“Art is a way of thinking things out differently, and of apprehending the intrinsic inaccessibility of phenomenal reality…art is an instrument, a method of getting at that which is closed and inaccessible to us.”Gerhard Richter
Richter, a gifted painter, is speaking specifically to his experience of art making. But his words are a provocative reminder that we all live in a world we don’t …
Richter, a gifted painter, is speaking specifically to his experience of art making. But his words are a provocative reminder that we all live in a world we don’t understand very well. Like many artists, Richter has developed skills that enable him to operate in a landscape that has a much more complicated ecology than we can perceive, one where “unknown unknowns” …
