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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. but grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all i can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. the painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

-Gerhard Richter

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To Me, Grey Is The Welcome And

Gerhard Richter

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. but grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all i can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. the painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

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Grey. it makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. it has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that i think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. in other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. but who cares about painting? what we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. initially i was attracted by the typical pop art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; i preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of albers, bill, calderara, lohse, etc.

Even the sky was grey. grey and grey and greyer. the whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. the eyes of the bride were brown. big and brown and full of fear.

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when i think of that, i always think of h.g. wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. and no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.

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