Sometimes called the “Picasso of the 21st century,” Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, where he grew up under the Third Reich. He escaped to West Germany in 1961 and pursued more art study. Richter’s artistic practice involves a wide range of mediums but is dominated by painting and photographic printmaking (in which he uses newspaper clippings as well as his own photography). Restless, Richter is continually reinventing himself. “I pursue no intentions, no system, no direction,” he said in 1966. “I have no program, no style, no concern.” This exhibition at David Zwirner in Paris features new works on paper as well as selections from the 1990s to the 2010s, such as Abstrakte Bilder (Abstract Paintings), and reflective glass installations. —Maggie Turner