Gerhard Richter Painting (Germany, 2011): A Theater Near You

Film - Documentary | July 7 | 6:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Gerhard Richter Painting is a strikingly visual document of Richter’s creative process. Filmmaker Corinna Belz and her crew observe the seventy-nine-year-old German artist in his studio at work on a new series of large-scale abstract paintings. Richter’s distinctive technique, one that involves applying paint followed by a major reworking of the material with massive squeegees, reveals the creation/destruction process at play in his work. Intimate conversations with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman and rare archive material provide additional insights. Gerhard Richter Painting offers an insider’s view into one of the world’s greatest living painters, who has been infamously media-shy. “Magnificent and evocative… as close as cinema gets to tracking the impulses and paradoxes of a gifted imagination” (Aaron Hillis, Village Voice).

• Photographed by Johann Feindt, Frank Kranstedt, Dieter Stürmer. With Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman. (97 mins, In German and English with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From Kino Lorber)

Tickets: $5.50 BAM/PFA members UC Berkeley students,  $6.50 Non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and young adults (13-17),  $9.50 General admission

Event Contact: 510-642-0365