Gerhard Richter: Haggadah

This diasec-mounted chromogenic print by Gerhard Richter was produced in collaboration with Heni Editions and comes from a series of eleven editions by the artist. The work is based on Richter’s unique oil painting Haggadah (2006), whose title refers to the text that recounts the instructions for Jewish Passover and loosely translates to “story,” reflecting the work’s subtle oscillation of form. A layered composition in blue, gray, green, red, and yellow made using a squeegee, Haggadah appears to shift between abstraction, figuration, and three-dimensionality, encapsulating the artist’s dictum: “The intention [is] to invent nothing—no idea, no composition, no object, no form—and to receive everything: composition, object, form, idea, picture.”