25 April – 27 October 2024 | Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, LONDON
The Serpentine Gallery and The Royal Parks present a large-scale sculpture by the German artist Gerhart Richter. The sculpture, STRIP-TOWER, continues six decades of the artist’s work.
Richter began a series of works titled Strip Painting in 2010, inspired by an earlier ‘squeegee painting’ titled Abstract Painting 724/4 from 1990. The paintings were photographed, scanned, and divided into two strips, then four, eight, sixteen and thirty-two. The vertical strips of the painting were stretched horizontally, laminated onto aluminium and covered with perspex.
STRIP-TOWER uses a similar method with colourful striped ceramic tiles cladding two perpendicular panels. The thin vertical pieces form a dense composition where the intersecting panels create a cross-section that visitors can also stand within. Image of STRIP-TOWER (2023) by Gerhard Richter © 2024, Gerhard Richter, Prudence Cuming Associates. Serpentine
