On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt
published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different.
Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're
read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted
with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That calm was the
work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over Die Welt
for that single day, taking over and imprinting all thirty pages of
the newspaper with his personal stamp: images from quiet moments
amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics from its primary
position, the privileging of the private and personal over the
public, and, above all, artful, moving contrasts between sharpness
and softness. He had created an unprecedented work of mass art.
Among the many people to praise the work was writer Alexander
Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to accompany Richter's
images. This book, the second collaboration between Kluge and
Richter, brings their stories and images together, along with new
words and artworks created specifically for this volume. The
result, Dispatches from Moments of Calm, is a beautiful, meditative
interval in the otherwise unremitting press of everyday life, a
masterpiece by two acclaimed artists working at the height of their
powers.
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