Hasta La Ideas

“Painting under observation is worse than being in the hospital,” Gerhard Richter tells filmmaker Corinna Belz, shortly after she has installed herself and a small crew in his bright, clutter-free studio outside Cologne, Germany. Fortunately, the artist agreed to endure several months of scrutiny as he went about what he describes to Belz as “a secretive business”: painting a series of giant abstracts in the spring and summer of 2009. The result is Gerhard Richter Painting, a mesmerizing documentary that made its U.S. debut last December at Art Basel Miami Beach and is out this week on DVD. “My interest was to show Richter at work,” says Belz, who first convinced the artist to appear on camera in her 2007 short, Gerhard Richter’s Window (fingers crossed for a trilogy). “How he moves, how he applies paint to canvas, his compelling squeegee technique.”
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