Gerhard Richter: Moving Pictures

Friday 18 Apr 2025, 20:00 → 21:30 Europe/Berlin

Festspielhaus Hellerau

foto: Marco Blaauw

Painter, graphic artist and photographer Gerhard Richter is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary artists. In 2017, Gerhard Richter and director Corinna Belz conceived the film project "Moving Picture (946-3)", which became the basis for compositions by Steve Reich and Rebecca Saunders. With the film sequences, Steve Reich developed a typical and masterfully controlled minimalist sound world. "Reich/Richter" was premiered in 2019 at The Shed in New York, where it was played over a hundred times. Rebecca Saunders' composition "Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version", which she developed together with trumpeter Marco Blaauw for solo trumpet and electronic sounds, was premiered in 2019 at the Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto. At the end of the 32nd Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, Steve Reich's and Rebecca Saunders' compositions will make it possible to experience Gerhard Richter's visual worlds in a completely new way in this extraordinary and immersive film-concert project with "hypnotic and absolute sharpness" (Rebecca Saunders) in the Great Hall of the Festspielhaus Hellerau.

https://www.hellerau.org/en/event/gerhard-richter-moving-pictures/

Duration: ca. 2.00 h