The exhibition will be the most recent presentation of Gerhard Richter’s work in New York since his exhibition four years ago at Marian Goodman (2001), and since the retrospective Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, held at The Museum of Modern Art in 2002, which traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, and The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

On view will be will be a major representation of the works made by Richter from 2001 and 2005, including two important cycles of new paintings, as well as individual paintings, and a series of large-format drawings rare in scale and the first of their kind since the appearance of the 1999 catalogue raisonné of the drawings, Gerhard Richter: Drawings 1964-1999.

The two new series of paintings include four Silikat pictures, 885-1—885-4 ( 2003), whose black and grey planes explore the nexus between abstraction and representation, taking as their point of departure photographically enlarged molecular structures. A separate cycle of works will include a series of twelve paintings from 2005, 892-1—892-12 ( 2005), in which the artist’s pictorial stratagems are developed within the context of a succession of large-format abstractions.

A fully illustrated catalogue, Gerhard Richter: Paintings 2001-2005, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition and will include three new texts: an essay by Dr. Dieter Schwartz of Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and an essay and interview by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. The catalogue will also include full-color reproductions of the exhibition.

Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in the former German Democratic Republic in 1932, where he lived until 1961, studying first at the Kunstakademie, Dresden from 1951-1956, and then, after leaving for the West (in 1961), at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, from 1961-1963. He has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Wexner Prize in 1998; the Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan, 1997; the Golden Lion of the 47 th Biennale, Venice, 1997; the Wolf Prize in Israel in 1994/5; the Kaiserring Prize der Stadt Goslar, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 1988; the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna, 1985; the Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, 1981; and the Junger Western Art Prize, Germany, 1961.