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Grit Richter

Lovers

Emotional Forms

Grit Richter’s artistic approach shifts between abstraction and figuration, between the immediacy of utopian landscapes and the momentariness of a snapshot. Richter’s paintings, which she often installs together with sculpture and drapery, share a visual universe that is mostly two-dimensional and abstract. They also contain figurative elements which often appear bizarre and humorous through their combination of colors, forms and materials. The artist is searching for a way to cast universal feelings into images that function as aesthetic parables of our inner world. Her works explore the alliance of the conscious and unconscious, of individual and collective memory.
 
The edition Lovers was created during the collaboration on Richter's monograph Das Leben eben – Just Life. Love and intimacy are recurring themes in her oeuvre. Feelings such as fragility, exhaustion, and connection seem to be taken in, and then radiated back; her motifs glow—according to Julia Voss—like memories of the most beautiful nights.

The original can be seen until February 18, 2024 in the exhibition something new, something old, something desired at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.