In 18.Oktober 1977 – a cycle of fifteen paintings about the German Autumn and the Baader-Meinhof Gang – Gerhard Richter deals with the trauma of terrorism confronting himself with the crystallized memory of the “crime scene” – specifically, the photos of the dead bodies in Stammheim taken by the police and then published in Stern – that he recomposes, giving us back an experience of blurred, vague, enigmatic vision, therefore forcing us to look in a different way and to search for what is hiding from our sight. The work of Richter is a gesture of rewriting archival images that thus becomes an act of redemption. He opposes to the obscene visibility of the death showed in the photographs of the police – exhibited as proofs of guilt or exploited to satisfy a desire of revenge – the spectral vision of an elementary truth: death, even in the exceptional form of terroristic violence, represents a mysterious and utter horizon that no political gesture can recompose. It is exactly in the death, experienced as a common but unspeakable fate, that Richter finds the humanity of the terrorists, helping us to approach the comprehension of trauma
“Wir wollen uns mit den Bildern unseres Landes befassen”: Documents, Fetishes, Icons, Relics: the Reconstruction of the German Autumn as an Image, 2015-11.
Autori: | FARINOTTI, LUISELLA |
Data di pubblicazione: | nov-2015 |
Titolo: | “Wir wollen uns mit den Bildern unseres Landes befassen”: Documents, Fetishes, Icons, Relics: the Reconstruction of the German Autumn as an Image |
Rivista: | |
Nazione editore: | Italy |
Editore: | Mimesis International |
Volume: | 15 |
Fascicolo: | 24 |
Pagina iniziale: | 63 |
Pagina finale: | 77 |
Numero di pagine: | 15 |
Revisione (peer review): | esperti anonimi |
Rilevanza: | internazionale |
Lingua: | English |
URL: | http://cinemaetcie.net/about/ |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore L-ART/06 - Cinema, Fotografia e Televisione |
Abstract: | In 18.Oktober 1977 – a cycle of fifteen paintings about the German Autumn and the Baader-Meinhof Gang – Gerhard Richter deals with the trauma of terrorism confronting himself with the crystallized memory of the “crime scene” – specifically, the photos of the dead bodies in Stammheim taken by the police and then published in Stern – that he recomposes, giving us back an experience of blurred, vague, enigmatic vision, therefore forcing us to look in a different way and to search for what is hiding from our sight. The work of Richter is a gesture of rewriting archival images that thus becomes an act of redemption. He opposes to the obscene visibility of the death showed in the photographs of the police – exhibited as proofs of guilt or exploited to satisfy a desire of revenge – the spectral vision of an elementary truth: death, even in the exceptional form of terroristic violence, represents a mysterious and utter horizon that no political gesture can recompose. It is exactly in the death, experienced as a common but unspeakable fate, that Richter finds the humanity of the terrorists, helping us to approach the comprehension of trauma |
Numero degli autori: | 1 |
Supporto: | A stampa |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.01 Articolo in rivista |
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