Daniel Richter - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Private collection, Europe

  • Exhibited


    Hamburger Bahnof, Exhibition of the Shortlisted Artists Nominated for the Prizeof the National Gallery for Young Art 2002, May 16 - July 7, 2002; Düsseldorf, K21Kunstmuseum Nordheim-Westfalen, Daniel Richter: Grünspan, October 12, 2002 - January19, 2003

  • Literature

    J. Heynen, and F. Kramer, eds., Daniel Richter: Grünspan, Bielefeld / Düsseldorf , 2002, pp. 66-67 (illustrated); J. Heiser, “ATangledWeb,” Frieze.com, 2003, n.p.

  • Catalogue Essay

    Throughout his current investigation, Richter paints scenes that evoke as ifin a daydream, the incitement of fear pervasive acts if violence and setsthese in the creepy limbo of an ossified Disneyland. How he transforms theseblurred scenes, with their deliberate obfuscation of reality, into a sharplyfocused psychological self-portrait is the undeniable triumph of his practice.W. Baerwaldt and S.Watson, Daniel Richter Pink Flag-White Horse,Toronto,2004, p. 11For Daniel Richter, painting is not just a means to an end. It is a passionateact, and a complex undertaking synthesizing a myriad of languages. At alarge scale, art history, symbols, popular culture, forms, figures, color, andRichter’s many diverse interests are all integrated into one rich andpowerful experience that recalls the grand tradition of history painting.Giddi On is just this sort of work. It reveals the passion of its making, andprovides the viewer with a new, authentic picture of a painterlyphenomenon. Despite these painting’s relationship to art history and oldermasters, the paintings exist in their own time and place. Richter’s illusionsexist somewhere between commentary on current issues and rememberedgenre pictures, a hybrid of reality, and emotion, materiality and simulation.It is with this contradiction on canvas between these two spheres thatforms the real substance of these paintings. “Richter purposely eclipses orstretches moments of viewer comprehension so that his repeated insertionsof graffiti-like images and visually restrictive, densely layered matter appearto waver between pathos and enchantment.What lingers long after onecomprehends the familiar in the paintings is the inexplicable visual andemotional impact of an often violated landscape and shredded builtenvironment filled with the tension implicit in evocations of violence andfear,” (ibid, p. 9).

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Giddi On

2002

Oil, ink, tape, and lacquer on canvas

115 3/4 x 134 in. (294 x 340.4 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “Daniel Richter 2002 Giddi On” on the reverse.

Estimate
$350,000 - 450,000 

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York