Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Helen Molesworth on Gerhard Richter | Special Episode
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
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The Beauty of Color
Rothko's recent paintings are saccharine, glaring and streaking. The chromatic order seduces us to reconcile ourselves with the world. Richter perpetually confronts you with the lie that chromatic satisfaction constitutes. That is what I call the opposite of beauty, namely enlightenment.
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