Gerhard Richter - Painting

Gerhard Richter, one of the internationally most significant contemporary artists of our times, granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009 where he was working on a series of large abstract paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images, the film gives us a fly-on-the-wall perspective of a very personal, tension-filled process of artistic creation. In her intelligent and perceptive film, Corinna Belz brings us closer to the complex processes of artistic creation. Gerhard Richter Painting is the penetrating portrait of an artist at work – and a fascinating film about the art of seeing.
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Gerhard Richter, among the world's most important living painters, exposes his studio and working process for the first time in decades. A master of the abstract - we see his fascinating method of constructing work with applications of colour and a modified "squeegie" - and also of contemporary portraiture, Richter comes across as a highly self-critical, sometimes grumpy and philosophically intense genius.