47. GERHARD RICHTER - A SPACE BETWEEN DISARRAY AND ALMOST NOTHING.

Gerhard Richter - David Zwirner - LONDON.

Gerhard Richer 12.8.2023 (4), 2023 - Coloured ink, and pencil on paper 21.5 x 26 cm. David Zwirner, photographed by Zhonghua for M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN) February 2024.

Spluttering, undulating clouds squashed between glass - as in a microscope - a slide - analysing life - the beginning - made towards the end.

a micro-line ticks forth as on a graph - connecting dots - a constellation - charting a course.

A map viewed from above - where colours indicate symbolism, shading regions and masses darken depth.

Landlines cut into a terrane - exposed in the full flow of controlled volatility, the diagrammatic splicing of a leaden cloud.

The marking, amorphous of meetings - of melding, of bleeding and healing of reaction and action to erasure.

Of minerals under scrutiny of an eagle's eye, sawing above - the telescopic range of NASA - the cosmos overwhelms yet ignites - a steady hand at mission control. A world beyond - a world within - all is made of such matter. To The unblinking of these emerald pools - 

Gerhard Richer 3.8.2023 (2), 2023 Coloured ink and pencil on paper 21.5 x 26 cm. David Zwirner, photographed by Zhonghua for M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN) February 2024.

- a dilation - where inks bleed and freckle a genus. 

These micro graphite configurations - a psychiatrist's analysis - the tracery of the barely, an outline to define an impossible - an almost nothing. 

A flushed roomscape emerges from a swathe of washes - as a tide draws back - exposed the headlights of passing in the night - a still from a progression - a sequence of future memories - as such clouds engulf these sunsets - the phosphorescence - these shimmering auroras. The ruin of a drop to further dive into the green - the validifying context of chance - the chance of a master of control - now swimming in the night - why now to revel in such encounters?

To scour the surface at right angles to counter and encounter this organic. To appraise these meetings of ink and paper of then and now.

Such subtle tenderness - catching colours - unexpectant of the violence in plain sight - volatile, momentary and permanently scared. - Scratched insertions disrupt the near-solidified solutions in their final moments of lucidity - to drag back a surface to expose an emergent - chalken line of the vulnerable - not ready to be set in stone.

Gerhard Richer 11.8.2023 (2), 2023 Coloured ink, ink, and pencil on paper 21.5 x 26 cm. David Zwirner, photographed by Zhonghua for M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN) February 2024.

A crackling through the shellac glosses of the sealed in the semi-permanence of a reign storm - to reach a relief from the impending.

The occasional bubbles escape the depths to reach the surface - to flush with blushes of remembrance.

Presented from behind the engineered - graphite frames of the creator's vision - looking out - looking within. Crisply defined as the sheets of identical paper, a ground of snow where horizons meet the sky - to trace the silhouetted clouds from a child's eye.

“What characterizes drawing even more obviously than painting is the sense of disarray, the absence of a way out.… Drawing is … an erasure, an almost nothing, right at the extreme edge where everything would fall into pieces. Just before then you stop.”

— Gerhard Richter, 1997

Gerhard Richer - Strip, 2013/2016 Digital print on paper between Alu Dibond and Perspex (Diasec) Four (4) panels, each: 200 x 250 cm overall 200 x 1000 cm. David Zwirner, photographed by Zhonghua for M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN) February 2024.

Gerhard Richter - Until 28 March 2024, David Zwirner - 24 Grafton Street, London

Special thanks Sara Chan and Kyung Hwa Shon.