showing_seeing Gerhard Richter at the High
Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: leeland mcphail | Filed under: issue_5, leeland_mcphail, respond, student voice, volume_1 | Tags: Art, atlanta, gerhard richter, high museum, visual culture | No Comments »
7-panes Gerhard Richter 2007
Arguably created by Barbara Stafford, Showing Seeing is a way of presenting a visual artifact from the world. Usually under multiple lenses, this exercise dissects our visual understanding in this world in the context of the thing itself. In this version Gerhard Richter’s work at the High Museum is examined. What makes his work communicate on so many wavelengths and so many levels of understanding? “Look Dad, I’m 3d,” a 4 year old exclaimed while looking through the eleven paned installation. What have you said?
in this edition, architect and assistant professor gernot riether is questioned about digital design, bernard tschumi’s paperless studio at columbia’s gsaap, global architecture, and his time with powerhouse architecture studio- reiser and umemoto.
