GERHARD RICHTER (2005)
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Groupshow Flicker!, at Projekt 0047 in Berlin.
The Groupshow Flicker! consisted in 15 successive solo shows. We decided to curate a solo show for Gerhard Richter. The exhibition had 3 parts:
1) A sound piece with recorded telephone calls in broken German, trying to invite Gerhard Richters for a show at the Projekt 0047.
2) A 2 channel video interview with Edith Richter – widow of a late Gerhard Richter who died 07/02/2005.
3) A live performance with 3 five-year-old children putting up the title of the exhibition as a a wall-drawing on the gallery wall.
Excerpt from Calling Gerhard Richter:
– Yes?
– Yes hello, can I speak with Gerhard Richter please?
– He is not there.
– Ah, OK, thanks, bye.
– Whats it about then?
– Yes my name is Ondrej Brody and I am a curator from Berlin and I make an exhibition at the Project Room 0047 and I would very much like invite you and participate in this exhibition.
– Oh well, he is not there, I am sorry¦
– Yes, no problem, I will call later.
See also: http://www.daansamson.nl/lastchristmasigaveyoumyheart.html
Mr Richter, Are you still painting smudges?…. Myra
go kill yourself
There are a lot of Gerhard Richters. And a lot of similar ideas:
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1998/0711/none/0158/index.html
Yawn. Far from original, tired and passe. If this is your best effort, don’t bother.
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speachless
sprachlos
still thunderstruck
choked up
floored
tongue-tied
richter strucks all of a heap
paetau lost for words
yes, hello all, i’m taken aback, now, is that all?
tongueless telephony
mute
stunned
dumb shit this is
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
ich moechte euch fuer eine austellung einladen:
TEMA -: NICHTS
please send me your cv
an: thing_net@yahoo.com
liebe gruesse
Francesco
Sloppy sloppy work: the 1 to 2 pixel black border at top & side in some instances— in work so technically elementary, such errors can only be attributed to carelessness or ignorance, not choice.
I think this work is GREAT and all you people here SUCK
Affff
may I call you and say „I don´t know the artist Gerhard Richter and I am interested?“
cant wait for the one on michael jackson….should be refining it by now, right? another two months!? we can wait.
these critique posts is the real stuff
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Great!
Demétrius Cotta
Rede aan!
Brasil / MG
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eso es todo?
lost for words
kristofer i don’t know what to say
great work! thanks for sharing!
Curators of power would automatically be limited. The artist himself should have all the power.
Hmm.. funny.. but not much more than that. I don’t see any discussion going on, though I guess that when making such a work it is to create an investigation and discussion. If you are really interested in the subject then you could go much further and make a research.
And: The way you talk in the video does not suggest a high level of seriousness in my ears at least, and even though I’m not famous and do wish to have more shows, I would not even take it very serious if you asked me for a show in this way.
is this about rejection?
I see this as an example of how NOT to act as a curator, independently of the fame of the artist.
More unprofessional than this is hardly possible…
why should we be obsessed with having to top each other forever? that is why everything´s getting used up these days, including band names and off-key ideas.
OK! Yes
Nowdays with the economical crisis artists and curators are getting even more tired and scared to try to fight the system or even to make fun out of it (like this work is doing in my opinion).
The Professional Artist included in a cultural and official circuit are extremely dependent of money, fame, and media for growth his ego…!!!
Art is a cultural manifestation not exclusively of empire of Cultural Media, as a Magazine, Galleries, Museums, an artist as a Icon…
The famous artists is similar to a Bunker… they are alone… talking with a Capitalism way of life… they… I supposed are in the limits far away to beyond good and evil…
This is a Visual Poem of my authorship…. ART IS APARTHEID…
Thank you for your special electronic message with a this frozen conversation… that´s reveal to us how the art as institution loose your path and sense… conducted by the hand of ridiculous business…
From
Tulio Restrepo
Multimedia Artist
Zona Postal Mail Art Network
A.A. 65.376 Medellín – Colombia
e-mail: tulio.restrepo@une.net.co
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