La estética de archivo en el Atlas de Gerhard Richter: la práctica artística sin horizonte de espera

Abstract

The present article approaches the Atlas of photographs, collages and sketches of Gerhard Richter from the logics of archival aesthetics. For this, the tradition of the atlases is studied in its documentary aspect and how its artistic production has to do with the multiplicity of readings, discontinuities and fragments of the society of its time. Then the Richter Atlas is analyzed as a file, in a broad sense, as well as the functions it develops from this understanding. In the third place, the discourse focuses on the bilderatlas Mnemosyne by Aby Warburg and the connection established between it and that of Richter, with its similarities and differences. To, finally, reflect in iconic terms, on the very nature of the atlas as a mnemonic archive. A documentary work about the iconic that forces the gaze of those who contemplate it and immerses it in the infinity of its multiple readings.