The Jewish Museum will host an exhibition of Gerhard Richter

On November 9, the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in Moscow will open the Exposition “Abstraction and Image” - the first large -scale personal exhibition of the German artist Gerhard Richter in Russia.

The exhibition will be presented to the artist’s key works created from 1973 to 2016, works that illustrate the important stages of his work and the diversity of the technician: “Gray” (1973), “Aladdin” (1999), “Haggadah” (2006), “Strip” (2013/2016) and the “Abstract painting” collection (2016), reports reports The press service of the museum.

The center of the exhibition will be the installation of Birkenau (2014) - a series of four large -format abstract paintings written under the impression of photographs shot by a prisoner of the concentration camp in August 1944. The installation also includes four full-size photographs-origins and 93 details of these pictures.

In addition, the Jewish Museum will show the series “Halifax” (1978) - 128 parts of abstract canvases - and “War Cut” (2004) - 20 prints and abstract fragments of early paintings - a special project “Museum Visits” - a collection of 24 “painted” photographs that study the relationship of the image and abstraction, “Elbe”, “Novmber”, “Tag” , and one of the most famous “mirror” paintings by Richter - “Spiegel Grau” (1991).

The curator of the exhibition is an art critic, the senior curator of the National Portrait Gallery (London) Paul Murhaus.

Herhard Richter’s exhibition “Abstraction and Image” at the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance will last until February 5, 2017.