1/5 Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

• 1/5 Anselm Kiefer: Rem...
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.

[@MarkSeibold]

Many who view art for the first time, should keep in mind, that art is not a product- it's a process. Anselm Kiefer has accomplished a tremendous work of process, and he is always active, always in progress. That is important to remember, while others may only sit and criticize. The accomplished artist is always active and in the process of his or her progress. Are you in process today?

[@Kapojos]

Its just shit on canvas...

[@hugholiveiro2081]

AN ARTIST AFTER MY OWN HEART.....'''' VISUAL CREATIVITY'''' BEFORE TECHNIQUE.

[@shringshringshring]

process, without records/filming/writing/videos/personal sharing cannot be shared, let alone understood, thats where product comes in, I think some things are meant to be understood and enjoyed. Are you in beauty today?

[@jmpsthrufyre]

​@@shringshringshring#goodpoint

[@heathdauberman8481]

YES!

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

Thank you so much, *****, you're amazing, as usual. And so is Anselm Kiefer !!!

[@taran333tula]

Mia, thanks 4 your appreciation !

[@thomasb4957]

Well Done!!! Thank you for the hard work in making this film and more importantly the inspiration this film will give to so many artists like myself.

[@sandorbarics3713]

Amazing. Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest artist alive. Art is indeed a spiritual process. An essential creational dialogue.

[@bealtainecottage]

His painting, "Lilith," has been a huge inspiration in my life...I saw it in the Tate Modern in 1989 and its image has haunted me since...it has also been the most inspirational and life-changing experience.

[@norikatoyan3872]

Thank you for posting this fantastic documentary.

[@barujhashem8]

God started everything, Anselm. Great artist, great onspiration.🎉🎉🎉

[@UntitledNumbers]

Beautiful cinematography…

[@taran333tula]

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[@Patty_Owen]

Great documentary. The art world needs more honesty like this. Anslem is so inspiring!!! 🤗

[@danielzza100]

For anyone wondering, the piece that starts at 3:07 is part of the soundtrack from Solaris (2003), score by Cliff Martinez

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

Thank you, it's beautiful !!!

[@MicaFarrierRheayan]

In my highschool, 2 decades and ½ years ago, if we go to workshop... We can see 5 or 6 enormous pieces like that which was being made by our seniors. I enjoyed it very much. In fact, I think it brighten up the classroom and kudos for the teacher or head of department whom initiate the project. I hope they retain it till today - though, there are certainly no confirmation on this. Even if they redecorating, I hope that someone will keep that canvases on their storeroom or bring back home, resell or something. Not just demolished it coz it must be a terrible thing to do for such an outstanding artwork that had been done with meticulous care

[@squaredharbors5988]

thanks for this one really the sound is stunning on the canvas

[@therunningjackal]

Great drone footage along with some excellent histiric and modern footage, well made art-doc.

[@Vukuzenzele]

4:18 You can say that again. True depravity.

[@djo-dji6018]

"We don't know why we are here". We do know, actually, but many prefer to refuse that truth.

[@tinghitiano]

love his work. it feels so honest.

[@chompers11]

"We don't know why we are here, we don't know where we go, ifs quite desperate." WOW

[@djo-dji6018]

But he's wrong, a typical, shallow secular skeptical.

[@mementomori286]

The greatest right now

[@jadrankamlinar7709]

"Melencholia" in Venedig, im Bibliotek in 80-ziger Jahren letztes Millenium, ein Luftzeug aus Blei auf hochglanzes Parket, zwischen die Büchern, graphit Handschrift auf Blei, meditative Sache. Wörter und Blei. Wings Wörter und Buchstaben aus Blei... Noch ein mal: Melencholia

[@ericbabcock846]

Living his ART, the process king. Just our spontaneity in the 1980s was, " any & all mediums ." I glued it all down with dead house paint EB

[@MegaMahuro]

"It's much better now..i think"........no anselm it will be perfect if you give that camvas two more slashes....but not 3 that would ruin it......

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[@davidcopeable]

Thanks for posting ;-)

[@volkermersch2586]

well done,, symplisity within great message, Evolution as a human worker,, great

[@omwidibercerita4658]

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[@mariamaddalenamanna7938]

Straordinario sentire e rappresentare!

[@lindaseguin8271]

Your painting is your hell within, so stop intellectualise everything. This is it and it is your mirror..

[@ThomasJakobMusic]

"God doesn't forget it." Nice one.

[@LuvHrtZ]

Once all the Hydrogen is gone it's game over.

[@MayFineart]

Wow 😯 so big arts … he made it very possible …

[@meistersinger7600]

So much better then the Wenders Kitsch. Thumb up!

[@sophiehenderson2442]

This episode is pure joy.

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[@gargolic]

someone can help me please, which kind of paint Kiefer use in his artworks?

[@ChiakiShirakawa]

ライセンス表示の関係でBGMの表示もあると、音楽に疎くて「これ誰のなんて曲だっけ？」状態の私にはありがたい。 ワグナーさんの「トリスタンとイゾルデ」だからこの感覚。あのときとイメージが似てるのよね、とすぐ納得できる。

[@nancygorman]

We do know where we came from and where we go!

[@quasimotter]

We pretend a lot. That makes us feel secure. We not only don't know where we came from, where we go, we don't know where we are or even who "we" are. If the simple answers keep you happy, no one should you criticize you. But neither should you believe that you have somebody else's answers. Though you may want to consider what there is that makes you satisfied.

[@jeadevoe209]

Ah to paint in 3d!

[@antonyohara]

It's like picking a huge scab...deeply satisfying.

[@sergioguillenberrocal9751]

Hi, could you make the "add subtitles" option available?

[@eatpanda118]

how love how he brutalizes the surface

[@ayadsinawi8198]

A true giant.

[@ursulafrydrich5857]

Wie lange hält so ein Kunstwerk? Die Haifische in Formaldehyd von Damie Hirst haben sich mit der Zeit aufgelöst. Danke für das interessante Video

[@Honesty001]

He don’t know who created this world and why he is here than he still don’t know anything till this age

[@RHINOSAUR]

I can only imagine how difficult it will be for conservators to maintain the physical integrity of Kiefer’s huge canvases.

[@user-qp6wm4bg1i]

He seems to welcome their deterioration over time. I imagine it's only problematic for dealers and collectors who view these works as investments first and foremost. I find it refreshing that the artist couldn't care less about that.

[@saracannon3105]

It's interesting to see the death and rebirth of a painting by its' master.

[@cliffdariff74]

Surprisingly that first painting he is beating on appears to be canvas, and not wood panel.

[@rossmcleod7983]

Conservators nightmare. A small box of watercolours and a nice cup of tea would probably suffice.

[@nikospapadopoulos1]

Another option of the power - artistic power/dangerous

[@brianrichards7006]

It's terrifying to be reminded of destruction and decay. I hate it. Give me Van Eyck, Bosch, the early Italian painters, Seurat, Magritte, and Dali, and I am perfectly happy. Who wants to be depressed when looking at a painting?

[@verioffkin]

Anselm Kiefer, I take off my hat ahead of you because of great respect. Have no time right now to watch all of it, but I must say to those, who make minuses: shame, you don't get nothing in art and in life itself, 0, zero is the same usefull part of everything as 1 and -1 This is the point where art turn into the science and philosophy, and maybe further who knows. And you don't get it...

[@badfreddytube]

what? did you just sit on your keyboard?

[@LuyaoWulivefast]

The “Valentino” tho... hahaha

[@noiseforthealgorithm4668]

NOOOOOO nooo noo no

[@yuanliu4330]

i like

[@pjamesbda]

It's killing me not to be able to identify the music that starts at 6:02 ...does anyone know it? It was used in another film and it is a very moving composition.

[@carolinefucci1614]

I don't know the name, but I immediately remembered of "Melancholia" by Lars Von Trier! Hope it helps ;)

[@pjamesbda]

Caroline Fucci Yes, it did. Thank you.

[@amazonrex]

+pjamesbda It's the prelude to Wagner's Tristan & Isolde

[@pjamesbda]

+amazonrex Should have known it would be Wagner...thank you. He can take us to heights and depths to be sure.

[@willalwaystelehandler8450]

Great word demonic for his paintings, real art work super sonic as great as turner's

[@Kapojos]

Uhhh yes we do know; God made us and we have to live for Him

[@karlelphick4783]

😂😂😂😂 prove it.

[@messiahtorahamerica]

God. Began everyrhing. And that what I see in his great work. His gift is divine...from where else. Demosn dont havw rhe gifrt to create. Sorry folks.

[@lionstandingII]

Roman salute....

[@vcastik]

😂😂😂 it will be very fine to use new canvas!

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Ok. 👍

[@jessicademartini3401]

Why did he paint the salute?

[@lorenzmuller3542]

Against forgetting, Jessica.

[@jessicademartini3401]

@@lorenzmuller3542 thank you

[@user-qp6wm4bg1i]

I've been haunted by that question for years, ever more so after the rise of Trump and Trumpism in America. Against forgetting, yes, but that seems obvious and simplistic. I think he's taking the viewer back to before the Nazis became THE NAZIS as most of the world views them in hindsight - back to when the salute was just a banal gesture being adopted by disaffected young men in search of whatever it was they were looking for, whatever it was they found in Hitler. There was a time when that salute was no more significant than, say, a red baseball cap, which makes it all the more terrifying.

[@marcoliver5104]

We do know who started it all. In the beginning God created . Jesus Christ created it all

[@karlelphick4783]

Whar a naive..brainwashed ..insecure..Foolish comment.

[@djo-dji6018]

Yes, but many find more convenient to deny the Truth and indulge in their own ignorance.

[@gerrylk9]

Any and everything is art.

[@PopoAshishi]

If everything is art, then nothing is art.

[@dandale4438]

What good is an amazing concept that produces something that is so unpleasant to look at? I have so few canvases that I paint one piece on top of the other all the time. Let it go.

[@olivierbolton8683]

Pollution

[@theofficeofjoudierobberts6304]

the problem with his art is it ages terribly after a few years nothing is really left on the canvas it all just falls of and gets swept up from the floor not worth an investment at all

[@user-rz2ve4ct5s]

Infinite process and the space requirements

[@zhangagassi]

我的偶像

[@user-to2gh7sg3l]

Shit..... And I thought my 4'X5" encaustics had presence....

[@pjamesbda]

Should art ever need to be "purified"? 7:50

[@varntvar]

+pjamesbda If your country's entire cultural heritage is left stinking of Nazi propaganda and nobody wants to engage with it then maybe, yeah. But I get your point, I think she could have worded that better.

[@pjamesbda]

James Simmons - The insidious part of propaganda is that during the spreading of it, it is called "news". Having been raised in the U.S., you can imagine my surprise on visiting Germany to find they wrote history a bit differently. We are only beginning to face what Germany grasp 100 years ago. We are so subjugated by the usury financial model they meant to purge, that we have come to accept it as common place. THAT is our propaganda, and it will be our own undoing.

[@ICareBecauseYouDo]

Answer to your question at 13:33

[@zoecarcia4196]

Anyone here for art class??

[@PopoAshishi]

I hardly see how that's relevant since no art is being presented.

[@paul1349]

This is what happens when you don't oil out

[@Schizonoise]

BIG SIZE

[@vin17flores72]

Ze iz zo Tof ze inhales ze ziga

[@nuagebleu3020]

Y et

[@nagolhayze9366]

You are lost

[@petetemosh6331]

Perhaps he would have been a better mason than artist.

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[@rainerbrandt2024]

Im Deutschsprachigen Bereich kann kaum jemand etwas mit diesem Schmarrn etwas anfangen.

[@jrsinsf]

The ultimate conservator's nightmare!

[@ginomazzei1076]

OMFG 2:44

[@wendergomesdasilva6254]

Roger scruton,ART ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@1977ajax]

Meaningless crap 'art' for a crap art market. It has nothing to say, but the perpetrator sure does.

[@a.m.a7187]

expanção e contração

[@Drbob369]

lol

[@petetemosh6331]

Or maybe the secret to being an artist is to be a really bad mason

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[@sergioceliscelis5128]

These Kiefer´s works might be art, but I do not like it.

[@user-zh5iy3lf2n]

단지, 이상한 할베

[@swimtwobirds]

"The Nazi's, sort of, took over art", sort of. They used a kind of illustrative classicism to suggest a purity of form and ideal, but even that bit them in the arse. For all their opining about mythological medieval aryan superiority they only ended up looking more ridiculous. I guess Godwin's law doesn't apply here, eh? :)

[@user-lv9wg5fm1d]

Tja, wenn man mal einen Namen hat, kann man auch alte Fischdosen ausstellen……

[@egbertbos4112]

rotzooi !

[@bonarlaw9066]

What's the point....I simply cannot believe that one enjoys looking at those paintings(so called).

[@PopoAshishi]

1:35 Godless nihilists have to point nor purpose.

[@justinleemiller]

Fraud

[@Jay_Sullivan]

I want to resurrect Michelangelo so that he may see this, and I may see him hop back into his grave. If people pay for this crap, just imagine how much they would pay for a drop cloth used in the Sistine Chapel.

[@AleksandarBloom]

stick with soccer.

[@44slam]

Du grand n’importe quoi !

[@leolaniado6386]

there is no reason to our being here nor are we going anywhere .We have no purpose

[@leolaniado6386]

brilliant

[@djo-dji6018]

Prove it.

[@splattermaidenh.6903]

Komischer Zusammenschnitt.

[@abdelhamid144]

Why we are her ? Read the holly Coran you will see ,.just read it like a book

[@NoorVatsalaBharti]

many people read Koran and then kill and rape and dedicate life to torturing others...it depends on evolution of the one who reads

[@djo-dji6018]

That of the Coran is a fake revelation.

[@nikogrujic6807]

😂😂 the man can't paint to save his life !!! Try to go take some ART classes !! And paint a face or something that is looking like some sort of art !! But you cold get a construction JOB doing plaster work 😂 you trying to hard FORGET about art !! Greetings from LAS Vegas