Neo Rauch - companions and companions
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Neo Rauch - companions and companions |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicola Graef |
| script | Nicola Graef |
| production | Nicola Graef, Susanne Brand |
| music |
George Kochbeck , Lucas Kochbeck |
| camera | Felix Greif, Alexander Rott |
| cut | Kai Minierski |
Neo Rauch - companions and companions is a German documentary film and artist portrait by Nicola Graef from 2016. A small film team accompanies the globally successful German painter Neo Rauch for three years at work in his studio and shows exhibitions and collections in America and Asia and Europe.
Performances
The film premiered on November 2, 2016 at the 60th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film . It ran here in the German competition in the presence of Graef and Rauch. Rauch himself saw the film here for the first time.
The first regular cinema screening and unofficial premiere took place on February 23, 2017 in Hamburg . The film's author and director Nicola Graef was present and answered questions from Abaton managing director Matthias Elwardt and from the audience after the film was shown (photo). The official German premiere took place one day later in the presence of Neo Rauch in Berlin . The general start date in German cinemas was March 2, 2017.
action
The film accompanies the internationally known painter from 2013 to 2016. It begins with a minute-long entrance scene in Rauch's studio in Leipzig, in which he alone tries to carry a canvas of several square meters across the room. The artist remains hidden behind the moving canvas, only his feet can be seen and his voice can be heard. He jokingly complains that there is no assistant to help him ("Where are the 30 assistants ... I did something wrong"). The sequence appears subtly staged like a scenic prologue , and through the stumbling and complaining protagonist, on the one hand , looks like a slapstick , on the other hand, metaphorically passionate with the oversized, empty canvas that the artist pulls to his workplace as a heavy burden. The author Nicola Graef reports, however, that the scene was not planned, but came about by chance. On that day, shortly before Rauch's appearance, she instructed the cameraman to film because she suspected that the artist was about to come into the room with a canvas.
The following shows Rauch at work on this and other canvases. Several pictures emerge, and occasionally the painter speaks about the process of creation. Long-standing companions appear and are interviewed, including Rauch's wife Rosa Loy and his Leipzig gallery owner Judy Lybke . The film also shows exhibitions and private collections of Rauch's pictures in New York , Los Angeles , Miami , Italy and South Korea, among others . Gallery owners and private collectors express their appreciation for his work and its importance, according to the New York art dealer David Zwirner .
Finally, the film deals in depth with Rauch's biography , in particular with the untimely death of his parents, who died in a railway accident a few weeks after his birth . The large-format picture “Stellwerk II” (oil on paper, 2015) is shown and Rauch speaks openly about his fate as an orphan . He shows drawings by his father, who he attests to have a "very strong talent" for painting. The film shows the opening of the “Father and Son” exhibition with works by Rauch and his father at the Neo Rauch graphic foundation in May 2016 in his hometown of Aschersleben .
reception
The documentary received mixed reviews. Michael Meyns writes in cinema , the film is at interessantesten when he "comes in Leipzig to rest and focus on the artist and his work." Christa Sigg speaks in the evening paper of the "considerable attraction" of "watching the melancholic brooding and brooding in order to then hear precise formulations". Silvia Hallensleben notes in the TAZ that the film looks at “Rauch's work is conspicuously immanent without art-historical positioning or recourse to the controversial reception”. During his time in the cinema, Falk Straub criticized the fact that you only learn “in parts” about Rauch's life. The director Nicola Graef is to be credited with the fact that she does not shy away from “unpleasant questions”, but she was “satisfied all too quickly with simple answers”, for example when asked about the high market prices for Rauch's works.
Andrea Hanna Hünniger writes in ZEIT that one cannot be sure whether it is a “parody or an imitation of an artist's portrait” because the respondents said “all the usual art sentences”, especially the art collectors and gallery owners. But the director succeeds in "getting the interviewees to appear with it". Silvia Hallensleben emphasizes in the TAZ that the interviews with the collectors are "rare insights into the staging of social distinction". The viewer gets an impression of the "international [n] reception of 'authentically German' art", which is still with " Clichés such as dark romanticism or dictatorship “are connected. While Michael Meyns for cinema called the work of interpretation abroad "quite enlightening," says Falk Straub would in the cinema time desired more uninhibited voices.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Neo Rauch - companions and companions . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b c Andrea Hanna Hünniger: Neo Rauch . Lord of the Rings, Part 17. In: The Time . No. 10 , March 2, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
- ↑ Neo Rauch - Companions and Companions. In the German competition. (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, October 28, 2016, archived from the original on February 24, 2017 ; Retrieved February 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c abö / dpa: The strange companions of Neo Rauch. Film about the painter star - Start March 2nd. In: LVZ-Online. Leipziger Volkszeitung, February 23, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Nicola Graef at the unofficial premiere of the film in the Abaton cinema in Hamburg on February 23, 2017.
- ↑ Neo Rauch - Companions and Companions. In: www.abaton.de. ABATON Kino Betriebs GmbH, 2017, accessed on February 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Current exhibition - Hanno & Neo Rauch. Father and Son - May 22, 2016 to April 30, 2017. Neo Rauch Graphics Foundation, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Rose-Maria Gropp: Dialogue between father and son. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 2, 2016, archived from the original on February 26, 2017 .
- ↑ a b programmkino.de: Artistic cinema, films, reviews, art cinema, art house cinema, AG Kino-Gilde. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ^ Abendzeitung Germany: AZ film review: Neo Rauch - Companions and companions: Melancholische Sphinx - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Silvia Hallensleben: Documentary "Neo Rauch": False Fährten . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 1, 2017, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 24, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c Neo Rauch - Companions and Companions | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Andrea Hanna Hünniger: Neo Rauch: Lord of the Rings, Part 17 . In: The time . March 6, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 24, 2019]).
