Gerhard Richter: Panorama

Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist's 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective organized by Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom) that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.

Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's oeuvre. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.

Richter also works with other media and materials to address the status of painting, for instance over-painting his own photographs or photographing details of his own paintings. Punctuating the exhibition will be a series of glass constructions from 1960s, 1970s and 2000s and mirror works that Richter began making in the 1980s.

Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. The artist has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career. The final room of the exhibition will include September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.

Date: until January 8.
Location: Tate Modern. Bankside. London SE1 9TG. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday from 10am to 6pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 10pm.