Richard SchurMunich, Alemanha, 1971

Vici MacDonald
"Richard Schur lives and works in Munich, Germany - a city famous for the special quality of its light. As well as teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts there, he is renowned for his complex, seductively coloured abstract paintings. Some works are huge, some tiny; the grid of rectangles at times crammed densely together, at others times lavishly spread out. Combining rigorous visual enquiry and art historical references with an element of knowing playfulness, the works are satisfyingly painterly close up."
Excerpt from Art World Magazine, London 2007

Peter T. Lenhart
"'Painting', in Schur's implicit definition, means continuing and constitutive ambiguity: under and over, before and after, subjectivity and objectivity, plan and spontaneity, two- and threedimensionality, material and transcendent, rules and violation of rules, historical references and individual positioning embrace and threaten each other as do the visible colorfields. And a crucial appeal of Schur's painting lies in precisely these intentionally carried and carried out conflicts. ?The appeal also derives from the feedbacks and echoes in the historical resonance-room, that come up when today's questions are brought up and reflected in the garments of yesterday, the possible answers to which may very well have to do more with tomorrow: Schur has a sure 'flair for the topical', that 'stirs in the thicket of the long ago', for 'the tiger's-leap into the past (to borrow a phrase from Walter Benjamin). The direction of this jump is, to be precise, 'back to the future', and the contradictions mentioned before prove to be a wonderfully erratic flux-capacitor, that reliably provide the necessary energy (1.21 gigawatts of electric power! 88 miles per hour!), however one can never be sure, into which possible future one will be transferred. That is the big difference from the past: one 'knew' for sure - as mentioned at the start - where art was going, but unfortunately did not have a time-machine."
Excerpt from „Back to the Future", Munich 2008