Saint Louis Art Museum presents Offset Lithographs of Gerhard Richter

Thursday, 12 June 2008 23:45

SAINT LOUIS, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the June 13 opening of Prints of Gerhard Richter, an exhibition of seven offset lithographs from the Museum’s collection produced by influential German artist Gerhard Richter between 1967 and 1972. The exhibition complements other works by Richter and his contemporaries in the featured exhibition. .The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian and Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946–2007, on view June 29–September 7 in the Main Exhibition Galleries

The lithographs featured in the exhibition are based on Richter’s own photographs of seascapes and urban architecture. The artist draws the viewer into these prints through their apparent factuality as photographic images, yet complicates attempts to read them through elements of manipulation, such as blurring and juxtaposition. By discreetly disrupting the coherence and legibility of photographic imagery, he draws attention to the slippery relationship between image, object and reproduction and to our own processes of perception. He chose to utilize offset lithography—a photo-mechanical process—to heighten the matter-of-fact appearance of the works and conceal his involvement in their execution.

Curated by Eric Lutz, assistant curator of prints, drawings and photographs, Prints of Gerhard Richter is on view in Gallery 321 through September 14, 2008. .

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation’s leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period.  The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879 and was then called the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Cass Gilbert, . The Museum was originally located in downtown St. Louis but relocated to our current home in Forest Park following the 1904 World's Fair. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, the Museum's Beaux-Arts style building bears the inscription Dedicated to Art and Free to All.

Saint Louis Art Museum is free to all every day; featured exhibition admission is free on Fridays. For more information about the Saint Louis Art Museum, call 314.721.0072 or visit www.slam.org

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