"To paint is to create an analogy with the imperceptible and the unintelligible, which thus takes shape and becomes accessible. Good painting is therefore unintelligible."
Gerhard Richter is a German artist born in 1932. He has, for several decades, been one of the most esteemed figures of his time. The diversity of his artistic techniques makes him both an abstract painter and a figurative painter. Along with his work inspired by photographs, he works on the materiality of painting, the ambiguity of the visible, the limits between figurative image and abstract image. What characterizes Richter’s work, whatever the medium, is its suspension between what it is and what it could have been. Memory and its association with color accompany the artist in his creative process. Underlying all of Richter's work is a reflection on the conditions of creation and the phenomenology of perception. The image and the thought of the image are thus inseparable.