CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/14/2018

Going beyond this senseless existence: Gerhard Richter

"A painting can help us to think something that goes beyond this senseless existence," Gerhard Richter wrote in 2009. "That’s something art can do." Featured image is "Flow" (2013), from a series of paintings made from colored lacquers poured onto Plexiglas surfaces, which are then swirled and sandwiched under a top layer of glass. "The works can look very pretty – like marbled paper, or rock strata, or microscopic images," Mark Godfrey writes, "but with the paint on the other side of the glass to the viewer, there is always a strange sense that they are pictures of themselves, and that we are not looking at actual swirls of paint."