4 July – 28 July 2012

Under the title Voyage, Voyage, the exhibition featured works which, against a linear seismographic background, depicted mysterious figures bathed in artificial light, typical of Richter's work.

Involved in peculiar interactions, they seemed like actors on a stage. Richter's works were characterised by a graphic, almost Secessionist style and glazed paint application on the one hand, and by innovative orientation towards the symbolism of the previous turn of the century, towards the mysticism of Odilon Redon and Félix Vallotton's compositions, dominated by contrasting black and white. At the same time, characteristics from cartoons, comics and graffiti were perceptible. In his oil paintings, Richter combined aspects of the history of art with mass media and pop culture. The title of the exhibition is an ironic homage to a famous French hit from the late 1980s by an artist named "Desireless". The figures in Daniel Richter's works often stand alone in a vast landscape and appear to be experiencing a sublime, contemplative moment. It is left to the imagination, whether these are musicians or warriors; they could be travellers on a long-forgotten quest, the goal of which remains unclear. Some paintings are dominated by dynamic movement, not only of the figures, but also of the colour fields. In other paintings, black figures surround the mountain landscape like spreading ink stains.