Daniel Richter on the painting boom

Works by German star painter Daniel Richter are currently on display at Hamburg's Kunsthalle museum. The former punk and squatter tells Belinda Grace Gardner about his current enthusiasm for painting: "Reality is an idea that one can discuss. And painting that prompts thought and debate is much stronger than photography. At the same time, it is the closest thing to the truth, to the extent that it never pretends to represent reality. With a painted image, one always knows that it is a creation … With my painted image, I create a platform to reflect upon and organize the flood of information, but primarily to give shape to my own ideas... The pictures state that most of what we people create is fleeting."

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