Anselm Kiefer - Aperiatur Terra gallery tour

[damookie]

thanks so much for posting this. fantastic.

[schostabur]

structuralism

[hanspetersuperpeter]

verquast - pretentious

[2181190]

"I would never say Im pesimit or optimit - I would say Im desperate" briliant

[oldpiq]

Hm. Somehow I thought that Anselm is about 300 years old. Good to see him in good shape.

[odoanna]

@oldpiq Doesn't he ? Must be in his (late) sixties though. Nice to see him laugh as well. Desperate, but in good shape...

[lolatyoulol]

His work is so mesmerizing.

[lesjeunes11]

To me, possibly the most influential artist.

[SAIselecta]

good. i like that. especially big size canvas. I prefer working horizontally, most of the time. my paintings are very powerful.thus i like kiefer.

[retePtnecniV]

one of my favourite artists

hope i can do something as powerfull

[tiberiousgraccus]

@retePtnecniV me too ! intense work

[mrlaa1]

whats the little tune at the start anyone? sounds familiar...

[bdcarrick]

Hands - Four Tet, comes from the very beautiful Rounds album.

[mrlaa1]

thought it sounded familiar :) thankyou. aha why has someone given me a thumbs down?

[Philippe333]

a moral relativist, certainly. . .

There is Truth and Truth is seeking us.

nonetheless very nice paintings. Still, how far from the picture plane must paint and stuff be before it becomes relevant ie. . . Frank Stella?

[pues13]

well god damn jimmy, this is one smart mothafucker right here. all the way nice

[erholungsparkmarzahn]

....was für ein saublödes gelaber....schade um die schönen bilder...

[Tim1302]

warum ist das gelaber denn so "saublöd" ???

Verstehst dus nicht ??

[KotOskar]

Kiefer is the best, one of a kind:)

[edcherrylawn]

I agree with waldscenen. I can understand, perhaps, a description of events and conditions leading to the creation of the work but what is gained by a pompous and tedious explication. The work should stand on it's own and creator does not control the meaning of the creation.

[VK8VK]

..while i agree with your statement that "..The work should stand on it's own and creator does not control the meaning of the creation..." however, inorder to break down the distance between 'art and life' (especially in the US) to hear an artist describe their work leads to a better understanding of the creative process..it removes the 'fear of art' aspect, and brings the artist back down to the level of the viewer.. everyone is an artist, as beuys has said.

[edcherrylawn]

"Especially in the US?" In which US? It's a big place, "a melting pot," constantly in flux in spite of the homogenizing effects of the media. I would hesitate to make a generalization about a country (and its people) a fraction of the size. There's a certain political agenda behind Beuys, his art and language, no?

[VK8VK]

sorry to confuse you..but as a professional artist showing for the last 35 yrs i can say fairly that in American culture

'art and life' are separate, whereas in Europe art and life are one..there is no separation.

Beuys said that 'everyone is an artist' and i was using his statement to make a point about 'demystifying' the artist (per the statement made about kiefer talking about his art).

thanks for the reply.

[edcherrylawn]

Claiming expertise as an "artist" does not grant authority or credibility to your opinions about "art and life" in any culture. Speak from and about personal experiences "...art history has consistently decided upon the virtues of a work of art through considerations completely divorced from the rationalized explanations of the artist." Duchamp

[chandru1103]

I agree, as an American I have to say the general public has no time for the "art world" which is seen as an irritant of society. But can you blame us as a culture...a major part of our population lives in rural areas where farming is the focus (lets just say "Farmer John" has more on his mind than Damien Hirst's next show)... in Europe urban sprawl has taken over, (Trust me, Munich rush hour traffic is the worst I have ever been in), and European's live a more urban lifestyle than American's.

[Jefferdaughter]

@chandru1103 - Not since the late 1800's has a major part of the US population lived in rural areas. But we do have more land mass than western Europe. BTW, some US farmers are culturally aware. One goat farmer is also an amazing sculptor, casting his own biomorphic bronze tied to found granite.: G. David Burch. Another farmer creates arresting abstract images full of light, depth, and motion: Linda Marie. As Thomas Hoving said, it's a choice. Signed, a US farmer.

[edcherrylawn]

Wilsoncloudchamber you missed the irony. The issue isn't the Holocaust but the type of thinking that leads to a Holocaust (generalizations about people, nations and races).

Kiefer is guilty of the same thing he attributes to the American, over simplification.

[pataphysician66]

thanks for the video-very insightful.

[mitjazz]

ed cherrylawn is sick.

[edcherrylawn]

"Nothing in the world has one sense only. The American thinks there's good and bad. This is not true."

I am trying to understand the multiple and shifting interpretations of those statements. Herr Kiefer is obviously an articulate an creative fellow. I wonder how he would interpret the following: The German has sex with prepubescent children in Cambodia. The German enjoys killing the Jew.

[wilsoncloudchamber]

View more of his paintings in more depth because he does explore the horrors of the holocaust and the universal despair of humanity's violence toward the Other and the powerless.

[waldscenen]

it is better if Mr. Kiefer tried not to describe his work. When one talks about one's creation as Anselm Kiefer does in this video it leaves one empty and can only lead to the destruction of the artist and his work.

[angyi2]

genius!

[orangelimetrees]

Fantastic. Thanks. Anslem Keifer is my favourite living artist and it's wonderful to find him so humble.

[soccerlu08]

great video, thanks!

[jeffreycollins]

Thanks BBC for putt this available on youtube. I find Anselm a very deep artist and have always loved his work from the very first piece of his I saw at the Columbus Museum of Art.

[asdffd]

I agree. Not many artists produce things that regularly leave me in awe- Anselm does it again and again.