“For Painting’s Greatest Skeptic, Gerhard Richter, History Is a Blur” by Jason Farago
2026
“Garmisch” is one of 26 paintings on view in “Gerhard Richter: Landschaften,” at David Zwirner in New York: a perfectly paced showcase of paintings from the 20th century that, at the same time, makes a direct argument about how to live in the 21st.
This 94-year-old heavyweight of German painting may feel commonplace to encounter now. His blurry, staticky pictures, some as famous as his sonic Youth album cover and as expensive as an F-16 Falcon, have become milestones in his lifelong effort to face up to the void left by the last century’s political and ideological cataclysms.
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