Fuji 1996

Gerhard Richter, a master of process, made this abstract painting titled "Fuji" with oil on canvas. It's like watching colours decide what they want to be, spreading, bleeding, and meeting in unexpected places. Look at the top right corner, where that red and turquoise kind of collide. It’s not blended, but more like they’re having a conversation, each keeping its own voice. You can almost feel the texture, the slippery surface of the paint as it was dragged horizontally across the canvas. There is a real push and pull here. Richter, like Sigmar Polke, uses abstraction to question representation, to remind us that what we see is always mediated, always a construction. With this in mind, "Fuji" becomes less about a mountain and more about the act of seeing itself. It is an open space for interpretation, a reminder that art is an ongoing dialogue.