Gerhard Richter: Strip Tower. Flip Book (en Inglés)
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• Documents STRIP-TOWER (962), Gerhard Richter’s colourful outdoor sculpture that was first presented at Serpentine in Kensington Gardens, London, from April 2024 to February 2025
• STRIP-TOWER is now on view in the Alpine landscape of Sils Maria, Engadi, Switzerland, until Spring 2029.
• Features 360-degree photography to reveal all 12 faces of the work
• Newly-commissioned essay by Marcus du Sautoy, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University’s, which applies maths to establish the optimal standing position for viewing the work
• Preface by the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Serpentine explores this sculpture in relation to Richter’s earlier abstract paintings
• Presented in two collectible formats: a classic portrait-format paperback catalogue, and a mini flipbook that animates the images when pages are flipped, so that the sculpture appears in the round
Since the early 1960s, Gerhard Richter has tirelessly explored the infinite possibilities of painting and gained status as a highly-celebrated artist worldwide. STRIP-TOWER (962), 2023, expands on the artist’s enduring investigations of painting, photography, digital reproduction and abstraction. Building on his series of Abstract Paintings from the 1970s onwards, and Strip Paintings made since 2011, with STRIPTOWER (962) the artist moves his explorations into three dimensions. Created using glossy ceramic tiles that clad two perpendicular panels to create a cruciform structure of 12 faces, Marcus du Sautoy describes the work as a piece of ‘complexity and simplicity’; its vertically stripes hiding a deeper, symmetrical process. This book commemorates the first public presentation of the work which was organised by Serpentine n London’s Kensington Gardens from April 2024 to February 2025.