Gerhard Richter: Sils

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

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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Val Fex
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Umwandlung
Transformation 1968 Catalogue Raisonné: 14

Piz Surlej, Piz Corvatsch
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Piz Surlej, Piz Rosatsch
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Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
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Muot Selvas, Piz Güz, Piz Lad
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7.3.92 (Fextal, Piz Chapütschin)
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Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
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Fextal
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Fextal, Piz Chapütschin
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Fextal, Piz Polaschin
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Fextal, Piz Lagrev
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Sils-Isola
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Laret
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Piz Led
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4. März 92 (Fex, Piz Tremoggia)
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Piz Güz, Piz Fora
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Val Fex
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Piz Margna
Piz Margna 1992 Catalogue Raisonné:

Piz Corvatsch, Piz Surlej
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Piz Lagrev
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Piz Surlej, Piz Rosatsch
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Silsersee, Piz Lunghin
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Piz Lunghin, Piz Grevasalvas
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Fextal, Lej Sgrischus
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Piz Margna
Piz Margna 1992 Catalogue Raisonné:

Piz Tremoggia
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Piz Rosatsch
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Fextal, Curtins
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Gerhard Richter, Val Fex
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Val Fex
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Silser See
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Silsersee (Maloja)
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Piz Bernina
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Silser See
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Piz Corvatsch
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Piz Surlej, Piz Rosatsch
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Piz Lagrev, Materdell
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Laret
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Kugel III
Sphere III 1992 Catalogue Raisonné: 77

23.2.92 (Piz Corvatsch)
23.2.92 (Piz Corvatsch) 1992 Catalogue Raisonné:

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