3/5 Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

First broadcast: Nov 2014.
There is no-one quite like Anselm Kiefer. Having achieved fame and notoriety in equal measure in the 1980s, he has become one of the world's most singular and successful artists. Working with themes of history, memory and mythology, Kiefer produces work that is consistently controversial, and monumental in its scale and ambition.
In this imagine...Alan Yentob joins the artist at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy. In a series of frank interviews set against the backdrop of his awe-inspiring studios, Kiefer discusses the impact of his most significant pieces, installs a selection of new work, and explains why he is as excited and driven by his practice now, at the age of 69, as he was when he began.

[@zedianzediessi]

This man is a true artist. Artists like this are extremely rare

[@donadonev5473]

I am deeply respect with his totally amazing art!!!!!!!! Huge respect for Anselm Kiefer!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rubymilner6466]

he is such a cool cat

[@gretelannebaumgarten]

Wow!! Love this - so full of ideas - always in progress - great materials, colours, consistency, wonderful!!! I usually don't like modern art. This is fantastic! It's honest art!

[@artistforrealart]

As a millionaire you can do whatever you want..that is NOT to blame,but it IS a guestion about why amongst the millions of artists these few are chosen...and it comes down to the same thinking that we all people want on this planet. Easy life,money..etc. Become ACCEPTED in art world..after that you can do no wrong. In music it is something else..in music you HAVE to be on the edge and talented all the time..

[@acatssoftnose3940]

People don't seem to realize that where and how we first grow up heavily affects our aesthetic sense. I grew up in both a dangerous and industrial working-class area of Southern California that was filled with Latinos. Even til this day, I always feel deeply at peace in such areas versus what I perceive to be the clinically "clean" shopping centers that more middle-class white neighborhoods and cities have.

[@chompers11]

Of course, white middle class people are far more dangerous than the working class.

[@richardjones186]

Amazing... you can actually smell the clay in that place.

[@perttiheinikko3780]

Kiefer's art reminds me of Andrey Tarkovsky's film Stalker.

[@mementomori286]

Significantly less boring, however.

[@EnGabriela]

Poor Tony..

[@EnGabriela]

Matahari Agent I was striked by the dimensions of his works, not only by the physical but also by the amount of people involved in the process of making them.

[@daviddalby9699]

Amazing love this

[@jokopram7652]

Like this artist..amazing

[@user-rg5wc7vv4y]

Verdadeiro artista, 🇲🇿🇲🇿

[@oscarayala3220]

I am happy when I see those German geniuses smoking tobacco. I am a native of South America, from where we have smoked and exhaled the smoke of our "tabaquito", conjuring the insecurities of the world

[@clementleroy5393]

Ah c'est tout joli Tony !

[@helioboechatserodio4227]

Very interesting! How can I get in touch with Art Documentaries?

[@Existential0]

FFS TONY!

[@ironfistarrival]

With his wealth he can buy all these big spaces and do his installations , any artist can do these things if there is big money in his bank .... where does his wealth come from in order for him to under take all these projects ?

[@Sandemose]

His art sells for alot of money?

[@Sandemose]

Who cares if someone can do these things, when they obviously don´t do it. Because, if they could, they would, for who wouldnt want to be in Anselms positon as an artist? An independent genius.

[@xxxrdc]

@@Sandemose Brought to you by 'Gimmicks R us...'

[@mementomori286]

@X Marks don't talk with this kind of jealous man.

[@ironfistarrival]

@X Marks ..Me too but i do not Sell my art for money , CAPITCH YOU ? I suffered way worst , coming from a destroyed country by a Thugs and international Western Capitalist Thugs ...

[@xxxrdc]

Take THAT, Richter!

[@bille77]

That orange ball at the bottom of the painting at 5:37. Anselm likes to include real objects in his paintings... 😂😂

[@moniquemartens4355]

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[@mementomori286]

This man is so funny

[@bille77]

At 4:24 Anselm speaks to Tony English only with a French accent... 😂😂

[@audeboutet6059]

Tony is doing all the important work. Anselm is just a tool.

[@tadiwahwingwiri]

The shit

[@peterjakowitsch9508]

I think he is an asshole but i admire his art

[@J_to_the_F]

What makes you think he´s an asshole?

[@brianrenko9848]

I think you’re trying to hard too fast. Let nature do her thing like she di before with your work before.

[@richter1226]

The guy comes off as quite a jerk. Until other artists his art all comes from the same place, dry cracked earth. There are a lot of variations of that theme and the war. Obviously something in war scared or scarred him as a child. A guy with a lot of money doing variations on the same theme, and has an attitude about it. I see nothing great here.

[@onam7801]

Rich ter guerre art?

[@vaderetro264]

Many great artists in history produced variations of the same theme for their entire life, and some of them not only had an attitude but were actually very difficult if not evil people. So the problem here is only whether Kiefer's art is honest and has a good reason to be.

[@wernerbesson8766]

You are an idiot!

[@adamtettran7471]

It's Too Much