Retrospective of German artist Gerhard Richter

Описание: (10 Mar 2003)
Washington, DC 27 February 2003
1. Exterior: Gerhard Richter sign - pan to exterior of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2. Interior - wide of two paintings
3. Wide of three paintings
4. Tilt up from reflection on floor to painting titled "Ice"
5. Painting titled "Bombers"
6. Wide of galleries - zoom to painting titled: "Townscape, Madrid"
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Storr, Exhibition Curator: "Richter's a man whose had, in fact, a very complicated life. He was born the year before Hitler came to power. He lived through the entire disaster of the Third Riech. And, he lived through 16 years of East German Communism. It is a life of dramatic detail, but its not the life that he tells you about directly."
8. Various painting: "Uncle Rudi"
9. Various painting: "Mustang Squadron"
10. Painting: "Kitchen Chair"
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Storr, Exhibition Curator: "What he wanted with photographs was to take subjects that seemed in fact to be arbitrary or neutral. Stuff that you'd find in the dust bin of a photo develop, photo developer's shop or things in somebody's family album and pick the most unprepossessing, unpromising image and paint it in a way that the latent content came to the surface. In a sense, by diminishing the amount of information what, by blurring the picture and so on, what you had left then began to speak in a different voice than the intended voice of the photograph."
12. Wide of two paintings: "Woman with Umbrella" and "Ema (Nude on a Staircase)"
13. "Woman with Umbrella"
14. "Ema (Nude on a Staircase)
15. Wide of gallery with Baader-Meinhof portraits
16. Various painting: "Reading"
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Storr, Exhibition Curator: "He's a man who is interested, deeply interested and deeply knowledgeable about painting's history. And, is, in a sense, testing each one of the options handed down from history to see if it still works. To see if there's something there that formally can be done that is lively and fresh and to see if there's an expressive possibility in it. And, he looks, in a sense, with the same type of eye at both abstraction and figuration."
18. Pan of gallery of abstract paintings
19. Painting titled: "Himalaya"
20. Painting titled: "Townscape: Madrid"
21. Gallery with abstract paintings
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Storr, Exhibition Curator: "The benefit for American audiences is that this is an artist where they can come to know one aspect and if they trust what they see then they can look at the part that they are less comfortable with and begin to examine it as well. And then, hopefully, consider the fact that they, too, have many aspects, they have many contradictions and that here's a man who has the courage to put them out there and the articulateness to make them clear.
23. Various: "Barn"
24. Wide interior gallery
STORYLINE:
German painter Gerhard Richter is an artist who encourages the viewer to ask questions about the nature of an image.
Some works confront the viewer, others offer a sense of comfort, soothing the viewer into a false sense of security.
A retrospective of Richter's paintings has opened at Washington's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery.
A comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work, the paintings fill a series of galleries, each one offering a varied view of 40 years of paintings.
His work does not fit neatly into one category, defying simple definition, yet he continues to test the limits of traditional abstract and representational paintings.
He also paints abstractions with the precision of a clockmaker.

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