"The Gerhard Richter Window" in the Cologne Cathedral - an imagenistic interpretation by Paul Rolans

                                                                                                                                                                

The new stained glass window,in the Cologne Cathedral, designed by Gerhard Richter has been unveiled to the public on Aug. 25 - 2007. I went to look at it quite a lot since that day. The best time to do that is when the sun shines through it. Then some of the Cahedral´s walls look as if they are painted in light and fabulous colours. It inspired me so much, that I had to make this artistic comment,this imagenistic interpretation, in which I transform the stained glass window with its 11.500 coloured squares into images, that resemble the abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter

"Colour in the light"

"Richter’s work is indifferent to interpretations. It doesn’t operate with a higher meaning that can be read out of it, nor does it require this. It is what it is: colour and light. And it manages quite well with these fundamental elements. They suffice to produce a celebratory harmony. The coloured glass squares are only mediators between the sunlight of changing times of the day and the light yielded by the radiant power of the sun that passes through the coloured material. The sunlight manifests itself as coloured inside the church. And as the living natural light changes, so too does the colour tone of the affected light. Sometimes, on bright days, the yellow tones dominate; sometimes, on overcast days, the dark blue tones. The window lives from living light as the source of all life. ‘The light of the sun’, says the Dean of the Cathedral Dr. Feldhoff, ‘is refracted by the panes into the colours of the world’.... read the whole article

 

Gerhard Richter Panorama

"Gerhard Richter, beyond a doubt the most famous German artist of his generation, will be celebrating his eightieth birthday on 9 February 2012. To mark the occasion, the New National Gallery in Berlin is holding a sweeping retrospective of his work, in conjunction with Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris...." read more.