Patterns

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Renseignements provenant du libraire parisien, Christophe Daviet-Thery: "In his new artist book, Gerhard Richter takes an image of his painting Abstract Painting (724-4), 1990 and divides this vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, up to 4096 strips. This process (twelve stages of division) results in 8190 strips, each of which is the height of the original image. With each stage of division the strips become progressively thinner (a strip of the 12th division is 0.08 mm). Endless more divisions are possible, but they would soon only become visible by enlargement. Each strip is then mirrored and repeated, which results in patterns. The number of repetitions increases with each stage of division in order to make patterns of consistent size. The publication results in documenting the listed 221 patterns on 246 double page images. "Patterns" is published in a limited edition of 800 numbered copies, of which 50 h.c. copies are numbered with Roman numerals I-L. The copies nos. 1-200 are signed."