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Informationen zum Autor Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968) is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) was born in Dresden, Germany. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and then the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His work has been the subject of exhibitions internationally, including touring retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Tate, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, among many others. Richter has experimented with sculpture, photography, drawing and, notably, painting. Aided by the diversity of his media, the artist has continuously examined the nature of imagery, highlighting in particular the contingency of representation. Klappentext The first collected interviews between Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist, conducted over a period of more than 20 years To be published in a new hardback edition, completely redesigned with a revised preface by Obrist and a special drawing by Richter created for the cover Offers an insight into the minds of two of the art world's most esteemed figures: Richter, widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time and Obrist, the pre-eminent commentator on and curator of contemporary art A smaller format, elegantly designed book, illustrated throughout with artworks by Richter
