Daniel Richter’s Tarifa: an emblematic image of suffering

The German artist’s 2001 painting is a dystopian nightmare – but also a scene that could have been pulled from coverage of the current refugee crisisDaniel Richter’s Tarifa is both a dystopian nightmare and a scene that could have been pulled straight from recent front-page news. Women in headscarves and men, all hunkered low on an orange dinghy barely large enough to bear their weight, recall countless images of the ongoing refugee crisis. Continue reading...