LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents the gallery’s second solo exhibition with German artist Daniel Richter. Entitled A concert of purpose and action, the show includes bold, new paintings that explore the boundaries of social order against the backdrop of anarchic disorder. Richter’s current works reference war, abstraction, rock and roll, history, our shared recent past, and the political present. The exhibition title is derived from Woodrow Wilson’s 1917 declaration of war on Germany, where the US President describes the role and purpose of America in relation to freedom and democracy worldwide. Richter’s large-scale paintings question the context of history painting in a society whose historiographic idea of progress has been significantly altered, hence Richter’s lone, heroic figures depicted singularly or in an ecstatic mass. These protagonists embody the various contradictions presented by