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Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Helen Molesworth on Gerhard Richter | Special Episode

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Death of Benjamin Richter

Benjamin Richter inhabits a kind of dead form in a way that makes many of the antinomies I listed earlier to be not so much oppositions, but what you call they have inextricable interdependencies. All of which somehow come to a head in the loss or death or failure of painting to quote,. as I'm quoting you every time I quote, I quote you, articulate or mediate subjective experience. You argue that Richter's work is a working through of a variety of profound losses or failures.

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