“This thrilling show, boasting 270 works, reveals the German in all his contradictory brilliance”—Adrian Searle
October 21, 2025
The electrifying genius of Paris’s Gerhard Richter extravaganza by Adrian Searle
Gerhard Richter recalls, as a child, drawing with his finger on his empty, slightly greasy dinner plate, tracing and retracing fanciful curves and spatial structures in endless alterations on the china. Decades later, he would place blobs of different colours on a canvas then intermingle them using slithery curving brushstrokes, lubricated by the oil and paint, until the entire surface was covered. Read more. Learn more about Gerhard Richter.
