Gerhard Richter Painting (2012)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2012-03-14 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Kino Lorber
• Film Genre(s): Documentary
• Country: Germany
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The opening frames take us directly into the promised land - the artist's studio, his bright, clean, well-guarded workspace. A bustling production hall where Germany's preeminent post-war painter directs an army of assistants operating at peak capacity to satisfy the appetites of the global art market? On the contrary, we are given a fly-on-the-wall perspective to an intimate and highly personal artistic production process, as the coveted canvasses of one of the most productive and respected painters in contemporary art take shape. It is a quiet yet highly charged process of action and reflection, inner struggle and astonishing physical ease. The artist views a spontaneous first draft: "Hard to say. They could be better." We are often treated to Gerhard Richter's pithy comments, which reveal not only hard-won insight into life and art, but also wry humor, great humanity, and refreshing authenticity. At the cutting edge of his field for five decades now, Richter works beyond the boundaries of trends and cynicism. Born in 1932, his first thirteen years were spent under the National Socialist regime, then came sixteen years of East German Communism, followed by nearly half a century of what Richter refers to here in old archive footage as "Capitalist Realism." He remains fundamentally skeptical of all belief systems and ideologies.

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