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3 September 2010

Epoch - Gerhard Richter at the New Walk Gallery, Leicester

Epoch, an exhibition by Gerhard Richter, one of the world’s most important living artists, is presented at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester from 2nd October 2010 – 27th February 2011.

Following the success of 2009, 18 museums and galleries across the UK in 2010 are showing 25 ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions and displays from the collection created by the curator and collector, Anthony d’Offay, and acquired by the nation in February 2008. ARTIST ROOMS on Tour with the Art Fund has been devised to enable this collection held by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, to reach and inspire new audiences across the country, particularly young people.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery are delighted to be part of the 2010 ARTIST ROOMS programme particularly as curator and collector Anthony d’Offay was brought up in Leicester with New Walk Museum & Art Gallery providing a place of inspiration during his childhood.

This presentation of works by Gerhard Richter entitled Epoch, draws works from the ARTIST ROOMS collections and also includes a selection of the artist’s multiples, lent by Anthony d’Offay especially for this presentation.

Over a career spanning more than half a century, Richter has exhibited work in every major gallery in the world from The Museum of Modern Art in New York to Tate Modern in London. Richter’s influence on the next generation of artists such as Damien Hirst has been enormous.

Much of Richter’s work has been an exploration of the ways in which photography has changed the nature of painting over the twentieth century. The largest work in the exhibition, ‘48 Portraits’ 1971-98, encapsulates this and many of the themes of interest to Richter including history, painting and portraiture.

This selection of significant works shows Richter’s diverse practice, from portrait painting to more abstract images, photographs and prints. Through this range of works, Epoch gives an insight into one of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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