Gerhard Richter Painting, a new documentary on the 80-year-old German artist Gerhard Richter, takes us right into his Cologne studio. Devoting most of its screen time to the artist at work, the ...

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“The paintings I like the most are the ones I don’t understand,” artist Gerhard Richter says to the filmmaker Corinna Belz in the opening act of her documentary, Gerhard Richter – Painting. It is a ...

Richter’s art is about control, but also about chance,” says Suzanne Pagé, artistic director of the FLV. “That’s what’s so ...

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Gerhard Richter’s “Cage” suite of large paintings, commissioned for the 2007 Venice Biennale, are almost scenographic in sweep. The epic paintings are unabashedly theatrical, aggressively setting the ...

An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting" offers fascinating insight into the working process of the famed ...

Shot mainly in 2008 and 2009, this documentary shows the German artist preparing exhibitions of his work, conversing with colleagues, and, of course, painting. The movie really comes alive when it ...

Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase “dancing about architecture” springs to mind), and even Dresden-born visual artist Gerhard ...