
Abdallah (Abdallah)
2010
Abdallah completes this intimate series of lacquer-behind-glass works whose titles are drawn from One Thousand and One Nights, reflecting Richter's interest in pairing rigorous abstraction with culturally charged naming. The name Abdallah, meaning 'servant of God' in Arabic, lends a quietly spiritual dimension to what is otherwise a purely visual and material experience. The lacquer applied behind glass achieves a luminous purity of color that Richter has described as approaching the ideal of color itself, freed from the texture and gesture of traditional painting. Mounted on Alu-Dibond, the work has a sleek, contemporary presence that belies the poetic depth of its title. This series remains one of Richter's most refined explorations of color as autonomous artistic language.
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- Lacquer behind glass, mounted on Alu-Dibond
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Inventory: RICGE1038
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