Gerhard Richter - Painting

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Movie
Original title Gerhard Richter - Painting
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Corinna Belz
script Corinna Belz
production Thomas Kufus
camera Johann Feindt ,
Frank Kranstedt ,
Dieter Stürmer
cut Stephan Krumbiegel
occupation

Gerhard Richter Painting is a documentary by the German filmmaker Corinna Belz about the German painter Gerhard Richter . It started in German cinemas on September 8, 2011.

Summary

The focus of the film is the German painter, sculptor and photographer Gerhard Richter, as he made an abstract series of pictures in his studio in Cologne - Hahnwald in spring and summer 2009 . The entire creative process of some pictures from the white canvas to the exhibition in the gallery is presented in longer excerpts . In addition to the painting technique, the focus is on artistic judgment, according to which Richter processes started, unfinished or not yet approved works, completely overpainted or (temporarily) leaves unchanged.

Recordings of everyday conversations, exhibitions, press conferences, car trips, etc. from the context in which the work was created, as well as some archive recordings of the painter, are inserted. The documentation does not have a speaker; Corinna Belz, who rarely appears in the picture, only intervenes by asking questions in front of the camera.

Reviews

“The result is [...] an illuminating document, borne by curiosity and a desire for discovery. This film about the painter is also a great document about the fact that it is not enough, as it is unfortunately too often the case in so-called cultural films, on the one hand to involve the artist in catechetical questions in the hope that it would a few usable statements are dropped, and the ostensibly indispensable 'information' is fed in from the off, which only leads to the fact that one ultimately neither trusts the pictures nor the texts and cannot follow them. Corinna Belz easily avoided these pitfalls. "

- Hans Zischler, Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Basically, Gerhard Richter Painting is a 97-minute misunderstanding: The film celebrates the artist as a quiet, scraping genius, although Richter always tried to overcome everything genius. [...] He seeks closeness and gets lost in it. He wants to reveal the great Richter secret - and yet shows little more than many colorful streaks. "

- Hanno Rauterberg , Die Zeit

"Corinna Belz 'sensational film" Gerhard Richter Painting "shows us the painter closer than ever before. Doubtful, silent, perplexed and hunted. [...] Belz does not explain, she does not interpret. But it shows the people and institutions who help to invent and support the artist: [...] The film also provides insights into the creation and maintenance of a production in which many participate, part of an industry that depends on the rare raw material that only one can deliver. "

- Kolja Reichert, Die Welt

“Gerhard Richter's artistic practice is presented very traditionally as a private, seemingly unreserved“ act of creation ”. That means, the more you put the painting process in the light of the camera, the more puzzling and incomprehensible it remains. An intellectual penetration of what is shown simply does not take place. Corinna Belz openly admits in her press release that she has no “theoretical interest in knowledge” because, in her opinion, books can “articulate this better”. This may be true. But does that have to mean that the viewer is offered almost nothing but visual values ​​and is therefore under-challenged in terms of information technology and intellect? "

- Hubertus Butin , texts on art

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film review on sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Film review on zeit.de. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Film review on welt.de. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Film review on textezurkunst.de. Retrieved September 10, 2011 .