She notes that «the family pictured in the black and
white photos have a son who is fighting neuroblastoma and there is a video feature of them on this website, just in case that is of
interest, because let's be honest, that mama is a woman of valor also, fighting for her son's life and raising awareness about his disease!»
Italienische Landschaft belongs to the group of early
photo - paintings of faraway places that art historian Dietmar Elger specifically highlighted as exemplary for the dichotomy they presented «between the objectifiable distance generated by black and
white painting and the artist's personal
interest in the motifs» (Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter Landscapes, exh.
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