Gerhard Richter Painting | The Documentary

After arguably his most acclaimed retrospective Panorama at the Tate Modern this Year to coincide with his 80th Birthday, the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting has been released. Richter’s art work is known around the world by artists, art lovers and collectors alike, though he himself is rather less known as a consequence of his reclusive nature. This in my opinion has helped his career due to the proficiency and exceptional nature of his work, allowing the critics to converse with the work, rather than with him. Corinna Belz’s the filmmaker behind the fly-on-the-wall documentary has spent three years as a passive observer capturing the routine and methodology behind creating his radical and consuming abstract works. 

“You get the feeling the paintings are staring at you,” says Corinna 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.”

Masters are never born, they are developed and honed by years of disciplined studio practice, continuing to work through triumphs and mistakes in search for the next and the search for the now. This documentary sees a master at work at the height of his powers and is a unique insight into a visionary genius. 

Works unfold before your eyes, changing at a moments notice; reflective of the society we inhabit. Each work is complex and compelling not least in their final state, a single work can consume you, in a wall of smeared multi-layered colours and textures that holds your attention and captures the imagination. This documentary in uniquely insightful, compelling and inspirational; I recommend that whom ever you are, you should watch this documentary. 

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Xmas Pop Up Show on the 10th-11th December at Debut Contemporary

EMERGING ARTISTS SEEK DONATIONS TO HELP FUND AMBITIOUS EXHIBITION

Our Story

We are a group of 30 UK artists who have been invited to exhibit at the Orange County Centre for Contemporary Art, bringing some of the UK’s most ambitious, emerging artists to California. 

The list of artists reads like a who’s who of the young, London art scene, including Rosie Emerson, Tahnee Lonsdale, and Agnetha Sjogren. Works by these and other collectible artists are available to you here as part of the fundraising campaign.

We are a very talented group, pushing the boundaries of the art world even in a time when it is hard to get arts funding to make shows like this happen. To enable the first Museum show of the London art scene in California, we need your help.

Our 'perks' in return for your donations are listed to the right, or we have opened an online shop here with more range: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LondonCalifornia

The Impact

This is a very exciting and potentially career expanding opportunity for all the artists that have been selected, and will also enable us to help raise support for OCCCA which develops and actively participates in public educational, outreach and community art services. 

Your contributions, big or small, will be helping on many levels. 

We are not just shipping work to California – we are providing an interactive, performative presence. We will be turning heads! In order to achieve this we are aiming for as many of us as possible to travel to the show.

What We Need & What You Get

Firstly we are offering limited edition artwork postcards signed by the artists. 50 of each design will be created to make up this exclusive collection.

Now that's pretty good in itself but we have a really incredible opportunity for you as well: All the artists are offering original works of art! This is a fantastic chance to own artwork from these successful emerging artists –  each very talented and collectible. Currently exhibiting in London and represented by Notting Hill based gallery Debut Contemporary, we have all successfully shown in other locations as well. 

A few of the places the artists have exhibited: The Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Southbank Centre, Sommerset House, and galleries in Singapore, LA, Russia, Salzburg, Austria, Germany and Poland. Collectors of their work are in many countries and include Banksy and Bill Woodrow. They have worked with clients such as Jerry Lewis and Groove Armada and have had work auctioned by high profile Christies auctioneer Hugh Edmeades. 

This is a wonderful way to get a piece of collectable contemporary art whilst supporting the artists in furthering their careers! Its not just a donation to us, it's also an art investment for you!

Other Ways You Can Help - Spread the Word

Please spread the word about our cause click here and see our campaign page or email to friends/colleagues to help others to notice our campaign and this incredible opportunity.

Thank you 

Thank you for taking time to read this and if you have been inspired to make a donation then an even bigger thank you to you! You are truly wonderful!

LONDON CALLING – LA

OCCCA, Orange County, USA

December 21, 2011 – January 12, 2012 

List of London Calling exhibiting Artists:

Abigail Box, Agnetha Sjogren, Alyona Larinova, Azadeh Fatehrad, Beth Nicholas, Carlos Martyn Burgos, Chantal Powell, Darren MacPherson,Katerina Stavrou, Katerina James, Kimi Wylde, Henry Wood, Joe Cruz, Lloyd Durling, Lyndsay Martin, Masa Suzuki, Nicola Anthony, Rachel Noble, Rosie Emerson, Robert West, Senghye Yang, Silvia Krupinska, Sylvia Morgado, Sun Ae Kim, Tinsel Edwards, Tahnee Lonsdale, Twinkle Troughton, Victoria Heald, Vikram Kushwah

OCCCA acts as a catalyst for self-organised initiatives with a keen focus on social engagement, intellectual and cultural exchange and endeavours to produce a forward-thinking intellectual framework. LA  www.occca.org

Debut Contemporary showcases new works by a group of internationally bold and incredibly talented contemporary artists http://www.debutcontemporary.com

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GERHARD RICHTER: PANORAMA at the TATE Modern

A week to remember! After finally completing the second of my new figurative paintings, I was ready for a inspirational week in London, and indeed it was. London was wrapped in the haze of pure creativity, and my mind was soon to be overrun and to the point beyond productive exhaustion with unique visual and ideas aplenty after seeing Gerhard Richter and the Frieze Fair. 

Richter although having had retrospectives before, none had ever been so comprehensive, nor as illuminating as Panorama. I was not pushed for time and after walking around in amazement at the seemingly endless wonders of visionary marvel that lay before my eyes, I proceeded to walk around the 14 exceptionally curated rooms once again in awe and in disbelief at the sights I had just encountered.  To me this was the greatest painting exhibition I had ever seen, and I was acutely aware of this whilst I was experiencing the exhibition. This was an exhibition and experience I recommend you take on your own, and certainly take your time over. 

The exhibition is a fundamental manifesto of what painting is capable of and why painting is certainly not dead and shows what a single artist is capable of. Gerhard Richter is arguably the most accomplished painter and indeed Artist of his generation and so I would implore you to see this Exhibition as I believe it may never be surpassed in its complexity nor execution and will be remembered in Art History as a landmark exhibition.

The exhibition was organized to coincide with Richter’s 80th Birthday and was launched at the height of London’s busiest Art season. As the titled suggests this is a broad view of Richter’s back catalogue inclusive of all his many distinctive signature styles. This exhibition, explained Nicholas Serota, aims not to present an artist of any specific style, but to recognise an artist who “chooses to express ideas at different moments.”

Tate’s cavernous rooms lend themselves to the large format that much of Richter’s Abstract works are based, juxtaposed along side small scale figurative works such as Skull (1983) and Flowers (1977). Richter’s large scale abstract work tower above you and trigger an immediate response with their immense and seductive walls of colour, that lure you in as you succuumb to their complexity and clarity seem smeared into undistinguishable moments. Though subtle moments in the exhibition draw you back to reality, some to an uncomfortable one, such as September where reality and abstraction seem to be as one; I almost walk past the work labeling it as abstract, then my eye wanders to the title and read the solitary word September, in which the depiction of the two towers can just be made out behind the shades that lay over their surface.

To conclude Richter is at the very peak of his powers and has produced in my opinion some of his greatest masterpieces in the last decade and has excelled where so many great names have floundered in their later years. Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a wonder to behold and is a must see.

Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern, SE1 (020 7887 8888, tate.org.uk) runs until January 8, 2012. Open Sun-Thurs, 10am-6pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-10pm. 

Frieze Article coming soon......

Vanilla Galleries | Two Queens

Re-post ZeeneBlog

Are you in Leicester? Do you want a studio space? GOOD NEWS.

Two Queens will be a combination of Midland art superpowers Vanilla Galleries and Cusp, providing excellent studio and exhibition spaces in the heart of the Leicester cultural quarter, with only a stones throw from Phoenix Square, The Curve theatre and the Leicestershire Creative Business Depot among others.

This may be the place for a Leicester Zine Fest at some point, hosted by US.. YEEESSS. We will keep you updated about that..

The studio spaces will hopefully be available from November and will be priced at £65 per month.If you would like to be added to the waiting list, email info.cusp@gmail.com with your details.

There will be an open evening at the space THIS Tuesday (20th September) between 5 – 6:30 PM. So come down if this interests you at all.

It’s here: http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.635146,-1.125148&spn=0.000416,0.001206&t=h&z=20&vpsrc=6