Gerhard Richter, 4096 Colors, 1974
Gerhard Richter, 4096 Colors, 1974
This is the basis for Gerhard Richter’s design for the stained glass window of the Köln Cathedral. I had seen this in pictures, and now I’ve seen it in life and life is way more amazing.
The colors coming through this, suspended 12 stories or so in the air, bracketed in high gothic architecture with an active organ playing medieval music: the window begs for meaning, and somewhere around there, you find it.
I can’t quickly find a lot of good writing about it in English, but here’s a start, anyway, you can see images of it set into the cathedral stone.
(photo: Colors of Cologne Cathedral photo)
We have the time, but sometimes we think we don’t. Gerhard Richter, 4900 Colours: Version II, 2007
建物は土台が大事だ。どんな立派な材料を使おうと、ていねいな細工をしようと、土台がゆるんでいりゃあ、その家はすぐにぐらつく。風が吹きゃ倒れる。土台というものは大切なもんだ。人間の生活も、真実という土台の上に建てなきゃなあ」
