New Gallery opens with Gerhard Richter
Next week sees the much anticipated opening of a London art gallery by New Yorker Marian Goodman. The gallery is housed in a vast former Victorian warehouse in Soho, renovated by David Adjaye Associates.
The inaugurating show is by one of our favourite artists, Gerhard Richter, and is getting rave reviews.
Richter, a German painter whose work spans six decades and a wide variety of styles, is difficult to pigeonhole, and always thought provoking. He is one of the most important artists of our time, with recent sales fetching many millions of dollars at auction. This London show comprises works from his recent ‘Strip’, ‘Flow’ and ‘Doppelgrau’ paintings, as well as a few earlier works and a large glass sculpture. Strip’s lines are taken from a previous painting of Richter’s, and the Flow paintings are made with spilled paint frozen in time by sheets of glass. These works are a riot of vivid colour. Doppelgrau, as the name suggests, are in shades of grey, painted on glass.
The gallery opens October 14 in Lower John Street, just off Golden Square W1, and the Richter exhibition is on until Dec 20.
We can’t wait to see it!