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Gerhard Richter: Sils

Category	Artist's Books
Author	Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André
Publisher	Ivorypress, Madrid
Year	2009
Editor	Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Details	Softcover, 86 pages
ISBN	9780955961359
Language	English, German, Spanish

Gerhard Richter’s artist's book Sils is named after the Swiss village of the same name, which he visited regularly for many years. Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles with a series of overpainted photographs. The photographs are mostly arranged as pairs, and are entitled Fextal, Piz Lunghi, Piz Surlej, Piz Corvatsch or Silsersee after different places within the region. Owing to the overpainting and their orientation – some of them are printed upside down – it is difficult to recognise the different locations.

The book was first published on the occasion of a Gerhard Richter exhibition at Nietzsche-Haus in Sils in 1992, and has been reprinted repeatedly since.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, with a text by Peter André Bloch.

The following artworks are mentioned, discussed or illustrated in the book:

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Umwandlung
Transformation 1968 Catalogue Raisonné: 14 Discussed: pp. 72-73, 78-79, 84-85 Illustrated: p. 21 (colour)

Piz Surlej, Piz Corvatsch
1992 Illustrated: p. 23 (colour)

Piz Surlej, Piz Rosatsch
1992 Illustrated: p. 22 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 27 (colour)

Muot Selvas, Piz Güz, Piz Lad
1992 Illustrated: p. 27 (colour)

7.3.92 (Fextal, Piz Chapütschin)
1992 Illustrated: p. 28 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 28 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 29 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 29 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 30 (colour)

Fextal
1992 Illustrated: p. 30 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 31 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Polaschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 32 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Polaschin
1992 Illustrated: p. 32 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Lagrev
1992 Illustrated: p. 34 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Lagrev
1992 Illustrated: p. 36 (colour)

Fextal, Piz Lagrev
1992 Illustrated: p. 36 (colour)

Sils-Isola
1992 Illustrated: p. 38 (colour)

Laret
1992 Illustrated: p. 39 (colour)

Piz Led
1992 Illustrated: p. 40 (colour)

4. März 92 (Fex, Piz Tremoggia)
1992 Illustrated: p. 40 (colour)

Piz Güz, Piz Fora
1992 Illustrated: p. 41 (colour)

Val Fex
1992 Illustrated: p. 41 (colour)

Piz Corvatsch, Piz Surlej
1992 Illustrated: p. 42 (colour)

Piz Lagrev
1992 Illustrated: p. 44 (colour)

Piz Surlej, Piz Rosatsch
1992 Illustrated: p. 45 (colour)

Silsersee, Piz Lunghin
1992 Illustrated: p. 46 (colour)

Silsersee, Piz Lunghin
1992 Illustrated: p. 47 (colour)

Piz Lunghin, Piz Grevasalvas
1992 Illustrated: p. 47 (colour)

Fextal, Lej Sgrischus
1992 Illustrated: p. 48 (colour)

Piz Margna
Piz Margna 1992 Illustrated: p. 49 (colour)

Piz Tremoggia
1992 Illustrated: p. 50 (colour)

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Author

Date

Gerhard Richter: Sils

Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André

2002

Publisher

D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Hardback, 86 pages

ISBN

1891024558

Language

English, German, French

Category

Artist's Books

Notes

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Gerhard Richter’s artist's book Sils is named after the Swiss village of the same name, which he visited regularly for many years. Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles with a series of overpainted photographs. The photographs are mostly arranged as pairs, and are entitled Fextal, Piz Lunghi, Piz Surlej, Piz Corvatsch or Silsersee after different places within the region. Owing to the overpainting and their orientation – some of them are printed upside down – it is difficult to recognise the different locations.

The book was first published on the occasion of a Gerhard Richter exhibition at Nietzsche-Haus in Sils in 1992, and has been reprinted repeatedly since.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, with a text by Peter André Bloch.

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