Gerhard Richter | Patti Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener | Premieres

The seventh episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates "Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings"-an exhibition presented at Gagosian New York and Beverly Hills-with a musical performance and reading by Patti Smith, new choreography created and performed by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener in response to the artist’s work, and commentaries by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Richard Calvocoressi.
Throughout his career, Richter has approached abstraction with characteristic rigor, employing varying combinations of process and chance to produce works that range from austere monochromes to richly chromatic compositions. The six large-scale "Cage" paintings (2006) are made by using a broad squeegee to drag paint from one side of the canvas to the other. They are titled after influential composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912-1992), whose pursuit of indeterminacy in music-reflected in his use of chance operations as compositional tools-resonates with Richter, who has compared his own process to the act of arranging a score.
In a special performance filmed at the gallery in New York, Patti Smith-accompanied by guitarist Tony Shanahan-sings “Wing” from her 1996 album "Gone Again"; she also expresses her admiration for Richter and the inherent musicality of his works in spoken reflections on the exhibition, and reads excerpts from Cage’s text “Lecture on Nothing” (1959), in which the composer describes his move toward a more experimental methodology.
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, who previously worked together in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, perform their own new choreography in the exhibition space, tracing the connections between Richter, Cage, and Cunningham. The pair, whose collaborative work addresses the ways in which abstraction and representation coincide in the body, dance to “Experiences No. 2” (1948) by Cage, which was composed using the rhythmic structure of a dance by Cunningham. This work is choreographed in relation to the context and will never be performed again.
In his commentary on the exhibition, art historian and Gagosian director Richard Calvocoressi discusses the "Cage" paintings’ formal qualities, explaining how Richter’s use of the squeegee reveals layers of color in a way that evokes, among many other areas of visual perception, the fragmented imagery of torn billboard posters. He also talks about their connection to the drawings on view-specifically to their dependence on erasure-and the essential mystery of Richter’s project as a whole.
Finally, Hans Ulrich Obrist, director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, describes how Richter’s paintings and drawings take different routes to achieve formal multidimensionality. He remembers his initial encounter with the "Cage" paintings at the artist’s studio in 2007 as being like witnessing “an apparition.” “It was immediately clear to me,” he recalls, “that this was one of the greatest cycles of paintings that Gerhard had ever done.”
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Artwork © Gerhard Richter. Video: Little Dot Studios
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[@domenicofrisini7942]

This video gives me Wings to fly, Patty Smith simply wonderful... Gerhard Richter gives us all freedom to create and to dream!

[@ksenijaturkovic9228]

I feel the same way but you expressed it so well.

[@LiB280]

Bellissima voce e interpretazione di Patti Smith!!! Wonder voice and great performer ❣👍 Cheers from Italy Amazing paintings 🤩 and choreography Thank So Much Gagosian!

[@martinapetroll455]

This is art in its best. I enjoyed watching Art and music, wow

[@gerardzwart9754]

Here we are. Smith and Richter together. Like two roads fusing to one.

[@avedonsculptor]

Thank you

[@HorsePenguin]

This is beautiful! Very inspiring. Just start your day with this video and you'll see how great it's gonna be ;)

[@marcusdubray]

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I'm late to the party but how fabulous this is . Soul and beauty

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[@balkandepot]

What Gerhard says about this?

[@erikaponte1054]

All the talking by Patti Smith and the performance just took away any joy I had in looking at these paintings. Too much noise when the pieces should speak for themselves, which is what Richter is striving for in the first place.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

The whole point of this show is how different artists from different disciplines inspire and influence each other. These paintings are called the "Cage paintings" because of avant garde (sp?) 20th century composer John Cage. Cage was a major influence on Patti Smith's development as a writer/poet and songwriter. I'm not as knowledgeable on dance and especially the choreographer who came up with the dance to go with this show (could have been ad-libbed on the spot for all I know given the nod to Cage and his unorthodox way of composing music); so, I'll leave that alone

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I agree.

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I've fallen under Patti Smith's deep dark spell. Help!

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When art has the space to breath, the breath taken in from its beauty, explodes into an energy of vitality...an energy I encounter almost everyday through the paintbrush of my artistically gifted 9yr old son ZENCASSO! This video makes us all appreciate the inspiration of life all around us, just waiting to be harvested by an artistic soul... ZEN88

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"I have nothing to say and I'm saying it"

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The ABSOLUTE BEST GAGOSIAN Premiere by leaps and bounds. Outstanding job by everyone involved. OUTSTANDING PAINTINGS. What a treat.

[@metislamestiza3708]

Patti's voice is still clear as a bell. what a remarkable mix of visual and song. thank you

[@lxndys]

Beautifully purposeful !

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Great video and amazing art!

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[@KitGuardian]

Thank you. What a wonderful way to end another day in lockdown in Australia. God I miss New York. Beautiful short film of art, music, dance and poetry. Would love to see these pieces in person.

[@reastavropoulos4728]

Wonderful work and collaboration and also what Patti Smith says - the best thing I can say when Iove any artist is they make me want to work ...

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[@kathleenclarke828]

beautiful poetry patti

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Una grazia e gentilezza da tutti i partecipanti Una gioia immensa. Grazie grazie.

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I love Patti Smith so much

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[@KraljMinja]

this is the best film in the series. patti is extraordinary, a truly authentic voice and musician. the dancers are exceptional. the richters are familiar, they are more examples of the method, unlimited supplies of paint :-))

[@markaudley-thewles5920]

Great paintings , great Patti Smith. Not sure about Vick and Bob though, pretentious twaddle😆

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Is John Cage still alive, or was the composition used for this multidisciplinary video a pre-existing one of his?

[@rubymarvel]

This is so embarrassing. This reminds me of how much I love Sprockets by SNL

[@dansmith4984]

These are the cage paintings that are usually on display in Tate Modern London? I think gifted by richter to Tate.

[@ricardofernandes9695]

Emotional! Thank you for this great moment!

[@seanhealyplastering6777]

How wonderful and profound, thank you kenneth!!! ❤️

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[@bobsteinfinkel]

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[@dislikebutton1718]

Whitest music ever

[@korduroy]

Appropriately.

[@JimmyMac717]

Love Richter’s paintings; Patti Smith and the dancers, not so much. Why was it necessary to include (I’m trying to respect the community guidelines here) these… people? Their artistic, uhhhhh… level dilutes the power of Richter’s work.

[@friedricengravy6646]

I have a feeling that Richter had a say in all of this, which implies he disagrees with u.

[@JimmyMac717]

@@friedricengravy6646 My “feeling” is that he didn’t.

[@friedricengravy6646]

@@JimmyMac717 Well, lets consider exactly what u r suggesting. That one of the most powerful living artists of today had his work shown as the focal point visually & with narrative, while having no say on how it was presented or with who?? A little like Big Foot, u can claim that I cant prove this to b untrue, but we should b able to agree that its not likely.

[@JimmyMac717]

@@friedricengravy6646 I don’t think Richter would approve of such a grotesque exhibit of “song” and “dance” accompanying the exhibit of his work. But, you think what you like.

[@friedricengravy6646]

@@JimmyMac717 Ok but please just for the sake of conversation, how do u think they got to show his work without his agreeing to all of this? I know he is wealthy so it wasnt for the money. If it wasnt mutual respect between artists, then what was it?? Thank u

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No words but COOL...Pure Unadulterated talent and beauty X

[@samuelgio1975]

Patty, you are so beautiful

[@iliada3282]

How wonderful and profound, thank you Kenneth!!! ❤️

[@LuciaCS]

Me encantó !! ❤️