Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden:

Since ancient times, the reproduction of nature in as much detail as possible has been one of the central concerns of painting. In 20th-century art, no movement has pursued this competition with reality as programmatically as American photorealism. In response to Abstract Expressionism, artists such as Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings and Ron Kleemann turned to representational painting, which was intended to compete with the medium of photography in terms of precision and visual impact. Banal motifs from everyday American life became the trademark of these highly ambitious painters, who located the power of images not in the subject itself, but in its astonishingly illusionistic reproduction. With over 90 selected masterpieces, the exhibition illuminates the development of the art movement known as hyperrealism from the 1960s to the present day.
On display are works by more than 30 artists, including Tom Blackwell, Karin Kneffel and Gerhard Richter.