It allows the medium to be investigated not only as something that carries color, but as a physical material whose movement, distribution and structure can be deliberately shaped.
Richter works through successive layers, movement and removal. I direct pigment through controlled micro-movements within a single painting session. So what actually changes when the artist stops applying paint and starts directing pigment?
There is a strange moment in the history of painting when one begins to wonder whether painting has already passed through too many lives. It has been academic, romantic, impressionist, expressionist, abstract, conceptual, deconstructed, revived and repeatedly declared dead.