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Gerhard Richter Film

October 16, 2013 — Leave a comment

A nice little Gerhard Richter Film about his once famously top secret painting techniques… (Film by Corinna Belz.)

 

 

The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works. As we witness him mixing layer upon layer of bold primary colors, smearing the wet paint with a giant squeegee and scraping at the surfaces of the canvases, Richter’s masterpieces appear before our eyes. “You get the feeling the paintings are staring at you,” says Belz, who met the painter while filming his vibrant pixelated stained glass window for the Cologne Cathedral. “There’s a physicality to Richter’s paintings. I wanted the viewer to become immersed in the subtly suspenseful cycle of the process.” Belz’s poetic film coincides with Richter’s 80th birthday and a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern spanning five decades of his varied work.

via Gerhard Richter Painting on Nowness.com

Thomas Brummett: Video Interview at Schmidt Dean Gallery where he talks about his photographs of the Infinite from his new series The Infinities.

via Schmidt Dean Gallery YouTube Channel

The folks at mutualart.com have put together a good list of 12 Must-See Art Documentaries.  I would add Watermark to it as well.

 

Following his new film WaterMark Edward Burtynsky takes on a very big subject with his usual exquisite large scale and meticulous photographs documenting mankind’s never ending plundering of the planet. Excellent video on the making of WaterMark below…

via Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC

 The making of WaterMark

I always liked this song but the magical quality of this video really makes it soar… Directed by We Were Monkeys, Mihai Wilson