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DANIEL RICHTER
KUNSTWERKE
Daniel Richter | „Voyage, Voyage“ | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | 2012 | YouTube | Exhibition 4 July-28 July 2012 | Video by Nikolai Saoulski | WHO YOU ART for GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC © 2012 |
Daniel Richter | About Daniel Richter and his art Text written by Patricia Ellis Daniel Richter’s paintings are elaborate in their deconstruction and recodification of art history. Drawing a wide range of reference from Goya, Munch, Ensor, to Immendorff and Doig, Richter offers a revisionist position for the crisis of painting in the 21st century. Richter’s work is often read with political motive. Working in the genre of epic historical painting, his images are fraught with a painterly anxiety. His work is infused with an apocalyptic energy, reflective of media induced paranoia. Beneath his highly seductive surfaces lies the portent of instability, violence, alienation and ideological subversion of a contemporary world in constant flux. Taking his subjects from pictures found in newspapers, comics, album and book covers, Richter repositions contemporary media imagery in the form of theatrical tableaux that are fantastical and timeless. His nightmarish scenes are both terrifying and beautiful: rebellious mobs attacking the Berlin wall are staged with medieval religious zeal; gatherings of vagabonds glow with paranormal threat. Laden with the weight of implied history, Richter’s scenes extend beyond emblematic reading; their narratives take on the qualities of magical realism, extending a shiver of supernatural barbarism to depictions of current affairs. Richter’s canvases are imbued with an alchemic affinity for paint. Copious techniques and applications deceptively flaunt the process of making, yet remain elusive in their overwhelming complexity. Richter handles paint with an unwieldy passion: every colour in his controlled chaos retains its magnetic purity, he creates depth that seems to grow, like an organic force, from within the canvas. Richter’s paintings radiate with their own internal light, bringing his dreamy scenes of contemporary fable to life with enduring authority | YouTube
Daniel Richter | HALF-NAKED TRUTH | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Salzburg | https://www.ropac.net/ | 2016 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg is delighted to announce Daniel Richter’s solo exhibition Half-Naked Truth, which will open on Saturday 23 January 2016. The artist will be present. His new works are divided into two groups, which were created in parallel during the past two years, and which are now – after the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt – on display for the first time in a non-institutional setting | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Besuch bei Daniel Richter | ttt | Das Erste | ARD | YouTube | Als er anfing, Kunst zu studieren wurde er nach eigenen Angaben sofort Alkoholiker – anders hätte er es nicht ausgehalten. Und doch sei er, der ehemalige Hausbesetzer, ein glücklicher Student gewesen, sagt Daniel Richter über seine Anfänge
Daniel Richter Interview | A German Painter | Louisiana Channel | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | “The studio is the sponge and the outside world is the water … The sponge is dipped into reality and then squeezed out.” Daniel Richter, one of the most important painters of his generation, talks about the transformative power of painting. “The studio is like a teenage room; you close the door from the inside and your mother isn’t allowed to come in. You don’t necessarily do anything forbidden or taboo, but it’s something you don’t want others to see,” says Richter jokingly of the work that goes on in the artist’s engine room. Multi-layered and crammed with historic and cultural references, his large-scale paintings come to life in the studio. “It’s like the brain,” he explains. “It inherits history and has different layers; language, music, memories, moods. It’s a place where you can analyse very precisely but you can also just drift.” Richter came of age on the Hamburg punk scene where he produced record covers, band posters and political flyers, but he didn’t start painting until he was in his late twenties. “I wanted to bring as much information into a painting as possible, which was, on a very simple level, a way of coping with reality,” he says of his early work made in post-World War II Germany and marked by the 1990’s: the end of the Cold War, changing global relationships and the birth of the internet. Richter’s more recent work has transformed into more recognizable narratives, a kind of contemporary history painting: “When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality … I felt the desire to paint things that related to what I saw in the world.” Not as a means of lecturing, explains Richter of his very political work, but as a way of working through the insecurity, fear and paranoia of being in the world. The key, he says, is to avoid distance and to make painting human: “The moment you take something that has a human effect on you, something you can’t describe, the whole thing transforms from a topic to something that is about yourself.” Daniel Richter (b. 1962) is a German painter whose strongly coloured, often slightly surreal paintings convey current events and art historical issues with an irreverent and energetic approach. A professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, his work is widely exhibited, among others at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Netherlands, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany and Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Richter’s paintings can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and elsewhere | Daniel Richter was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in his studio in Berlin, Germany, and at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in July 2016, in connection with the exhibition Lonely Old Slogans | Camera Klaus Elmer & Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2016 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
Daniel Richter | Interview | ludwignetz | YouTube | Daniel Richter Ausstellung in Hamburg
Art Talk | Daniel Richter | VICE | Daniel Richter is a German artist who started out designing record sleeves for punk bands in the 80’s and evolved into a Saatchi-repped painter loved by all | YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
DANIEL RICHTER
KUNSTWERKE
Daniel Richter | „Voyage, Voyage“ | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | 2012 | YouTube | Exhibition 4 July-28 July 2012 | Video by Nikolai Saoulski | WHO YOU ART for GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC © 2012 |
Daniel Richter | About Daniel Richter and his art Text written by Patricia Ellis Daniel Richter’s paintings are elaborate in their deconstruction and recodification of art history. Drawing a wide range of reference from Goya, Munch, Ensor, to Immendorff and Doig, Richter offers a revisionist position for the crisis of painting in the 21st century. Richter’s work is often read with political motive. Working in the genre of epic historical painting, his images are fraught with a painterly anxiety. His work is infused with an apocalyptic energy, reflective of media induced paranoia. Beneath his highly seductive surfaces lies the portent of instability, violence, alienation and ideological subversion of a contemporary world in constant flux. Taking his subjects from pictures found in newspapers, comics, album and book covers, Richter repositions contemporary media imagery in the form of theatrical tableaux that are fantastical and timeless. His nightmarish scenes are both terrifying and beautiful: rebellious mobs attacking the Berlin wall are staged with medieval religious zeal; gatherings of vagabonds glow with paranormal threat. Laden with the weight of implied history, Richter’s scenes extend beyond emblematic reading; their narratives take on the qualities of magical realism, extending a shiver of supernatural barbarism to depictions of current affairs. Richter’s canvases are imbued with an alchemic affinity for paint. Copious techniques and applications deceptively flaunt the process of making, yet remain elusive in their overwhelming complexity. Richter handles paint with an unwieldy passion: every colour in his controlled chaos retains its magnetic purity, he creates depth that seems to grow, like an organic force, from within the canvas. Richter’s paintings radiate with their own internal light, bringing his dreamy scenes of contemporary fable to life with enduring authority | YouTube
Daniel Richter | HALF-NAKED TRUTH | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Salzburg | https://www.ropac.net/ | 2016 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg is delighted to announce Daniel Richter’s solo exhibition Half-Naked Truth, which will open on Saturday 23 January 2016. The artist will be present. His new works are divided into two groups, which were created in parallel during the past two years, and which are now – after the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt – on display for the first time in a non-institutional setting | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Besuch bei Daniel Richter | ttt | Das Erste | ARD | YouTube | Als er anfing, Kunst zu studieren wurde er nach eigenen Angaben sofort Alkoholiker – anders hätte er es nicht ausgehalten. Und doch sei er, der ehemalige Hausbesetzer, ein glücklicher Student gewesen, sagt Daniel Richter über seine Anfänge
Daniel Richter Interview | A German Painter | Louisiana Channel | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | “The studio is the sponge and the outside world is the water … The sponge is dipped into reality and then squeezed out.” Daniel Richter, one of the most important painters of his generation, talks about the transformative power of painting. “The studio is like a teenage room; you close the door from the inside and your mother isn’t allowed to come in. You don’t necessarily do anything forbidden or taboo, but it’s something you don’t want others to see,” says Richter jokingly of the work that goes on in the artist’s engine room. Multi-layered and crammed with historic and cultural references, his large-scale paintings come to life in the studio. “It’s like the brain,” he explains. “It inherits history and has different layers; language, music, memories, moods. It’s a place where you can analyse very precisely but you can also just drift.” Richter came of age on the Hamburg punk scene where he produced record covers, band posters and political flyers, but he didn’t start painting until he was in his late twenties. “I wanted to bring as much information into a painting as possible, which was, on a very simple level, a way of coping with reality,” he says of his early work made in post-World War II Germany and marked by the 1990’s: the end of the Cold War, changing global relationships and the birth of the internet. Richter’s more recent work has transformed into more recognizable narratives, a kind of contemporary history painting: “When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality … I felt the desire to paint things that related to what I saw in the world.” Not as a means of lecturing, explains Richter of his very political work, but as a way of working through the insecurity, fear and paranoia of being in the world. The key, he says, is to avoid distance and to make painting human: “The moment you take something that has a human effect on you, something you can’t describe, the whole thing transforms from a topic to something that is about yourself.” Daniel Richter (b. 1962) is a German painter whose strongly coloured, often slightly surreal paintings convey current events and art historical issues with an irreverent and energetic approach. A professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, his work is widely exhibited, among others at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Netherlands, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany and Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Richter’s paintings can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and elsewhere | Daniel Richter was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in his studio in Berlin, Germany, and at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in July 2016, in connection with the exhibition Lonely Old Slogans | Camera Klaus Elmer & Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2016 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
Daniel Richter | Interview | ludwignetz | YouTube | Daniel Richter Ausstellung in Hamburg
Art Talk | Daniel Richter | VICE | Daniel Richter is a German artist who started out designing record sleeves for punk bands in the 80’s and evolved into a Saatchi-repped painter loved by all | YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
DANIEL RICHTER
KUNSTWERKE
Daniel Richter | „Voyage, Voyage“ | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | 2012 | YouTube | Exhibition 4 July-28 July 2012 | Video by Nikolai Saoulski | WHO YOU ART for GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC © 2012 |
Daniel Richter | About Daniel Richter and his art Text written by Patricia Ellis Daniel Richter’s paintings are elaborate in their deconstruction and recodification of art history. Drawing a wide range of reference from Goya, Munch, Ensor, to Immendorff and Doig, Richter offers a revisionist position for the crisis of painting in the 21st century. Richter’s work is often read with political motive. Working in the genre of epic historical painting, his images are fraught with a painterly anxiety. His work is infused with an apocalyptic energy, reflective of media induced paranoia. Beneath his highly seductive surfaces lies the portent of instability, violence, alienation and ideological subversion of a contemporary world in constant flux. Taking his subjects from pictures found in newspapers, comics, album and book covers, Richter repositions contemporary media imagery in the form of theatrical tableaux that are fantastical and timeless. His nightmarish scenes are both terrifying and beautiful: rebellious mobs attacking the Berlin wall are staged with medieval religious zeal; gatherings of vagabonds glow with paranormal threat. Laden with the weight of implied history, Richter’s scenes extend beyond emblematic reading; their narratives take on the qualities of magical realism, extending a shiver of supernatural barbarism to depictions of current affairs. Richter’s canvases are imbued with an alchemic affinity for paint. Copious techniques and applications deceptively flaunt the process of making, yet remain elusive in their overwhelming complexity. Richter handles paint with an unwieldy passion: every colour in his controlled chaos retains its magnetic purity, he creates depth that seems to grow, like an organic force, from within the canvas. Richter’s paintings radiate with their own internal light, bringing his dreamy scenes of contemporary fable to life with enduring authority | YouTube
Daniel Richter | HALF-NAKED TRUTH | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Salzburg | https://www.ropac.net/ | 2016 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg is delighted to announce Daniel Richter’s solo exhibition Half-Naked Truth, which will open on Saturday 23 January 2016. The artist will be present. His new works are divided into two groups, which were created in parallel during the past two years, and which are now – after the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt – on display for the first time in a non-institutional setting | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Besuch bei Daniel Richter | ttt | Das Erste | ARD | YouTube | Als er anfing, Kunst zu studieren wurde er nach eigenen Angaben sofort Alkoholiker – anders hätte er es nicht ausgehalten. Und doch sei er, der ehemalige Hausbesetzer, ein glücklicher Student gewesen, sagt Daniel Richter über seine Anfänge
Daniel Richter Interview | A German Painter | Louisiana Channel | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | “The studio is the sponge and the outside world is the water … The sponge is dipped into reality and then squeezed out.” Daniel Richter, one of the most important painters of his generation, talks about the transformative power of painting. “The studio is like a teenage room; you close the door from the inside and your mother isn’t allowed to come in. You don’t necessarily do anything forbidden or taboo, but it’s something you don’t want others to see,” says Richter jokingly of the work that goes on in the artist’s engine room. Multi-layered and crammed with historic and cultural references, his large-scale paintings come to life in the studio. “It’s like the brain,” he explains. “It inherits history and has different layers; language, music, memories, moods. It’s a place where you can analyse very precisely but you can also just drift.” Richter came of age on the Hamburg punk scene where he produced record covers, band posters and political flyers, but he didn’t start painting until he was in his late twenties. “I wanted to bring as much information into a painting as possible, which was, on a very simple level, a way of coping with reality,” he says of his early work made in post-World War II Germany and marked by the 1990’s: the end of the Cold War, changing global relationships and the birth of the internet. Richter’s more recent work has transformed into more recognizable narratives, a kind of contemporary history painting: “When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality … I felt the desire to paint things that related to what I saw in the world.” Not as a means of lecturing, explains Richter of his very political work, but as a way of working through the insecurity, fear and paranoia of being in the world. The key, he says, is to avoid distance and to make painting human: “The moment you take something that has a human effect on you, something you can’t describe, the whole thing transforms from a topic to something that is about yourself.” Daniel Richter (b. 1962) is a German painter whose strongly coloured, often slightly surreal paintings convey current events and art historical issues with an irreverent and energetic approach. A professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, his work is widely exhibited, among others at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Netherlands, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany and Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Richter’s paintings can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and elsewhere | Daniel Richter was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in his studio in Berlin, Germany, and at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in July 2016, in connection with the exhibition Lonely Old Slogans | Camera Klaus Elmer & Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2016 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
Daniel Richter | Interview | ludwignetz | YouTube | Daniel Richter Ausstellung in Hamburg
Art Talk | Daniel Richter | VICE | Daniel Richter is a German artist who started out designing record sleeves for punk bands in the 80’s and evolved into a Saatchi-repped painter loved by all | YouTube
