showing_seeing Gerhard Richter at the High
leeland mcphail | March 8th, 2010
7-panes Gerhard Richter 2007
Arguably created by Barbara Stafford, Showing Seeing is a way of presenting a visual artifact from the world. Usually under multiple lenses, this exercise dissects our visual understanding in this world in the context of the thing itself. In this version Gerhard Richter’s work at the High Museum is examined. What makes his work communicate on so many wavelengths and so many levels of understanding? “Look Dad, I’m 3d,” a 4 year old exclaimed while looking through the eleven paned installation. What have you said?
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i enjoy how that piece makes 3d space even deeper- and puts me inside it.
Thank you.
Listening and watching this was delightful, as you bring yourself into this world of understanding abstract expression. I liked your step by step description of your evolution into understanding what you were seeing and how it was happening to you. Very cool.
So many people are I like or I don’t like. I know what ‘I like’ but liking is also a process. You bring us through the pieces of your process. I get so tired of critiques telling us what an artist is trying to express – dead or alive. I thank you for taking us through your experience and how it communicated to you. Even some people in the discussion are analyzing you analyzing your appreciation of this process and evolution. I wish that all of us viewers would come to art, the world in general, with your open to discovery perspective of yours.
I am going to send this talk to my children and friends who share(or don’t) my love of art because this presentation is a gift. Maybe it will open some minds to future experiences.
I am a 61 year old pediatric nurse who also studied and made art – my alternate life choice. I will always love art. Please never get ‘old and experienced’ in your head. Don’t ever lose this newness and excitement of discovery you bring to it. Once people go there I think they often lose their audience because they sound wise, elitist, sometimes condescending. Art needs fresh, open, engaged voices to bring more people to this wonderful table. What I gained from studying art was the gift of sight. I walk the same road but see light, texture, atmosphere, emotion, nuance… I could go on. Thank you for this ‘door’ to a new understanding…by sharing your journey of discovering.
Warmly,
Chris Introna