Anselm kiefer alan yentob biography

  • Alan Yentob joins Anselm Kiefer at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy.
  • German artist Anselm Kiefer began his career in the late Sixties, and made a name for himself by producing controversial works that deliberately referenced.
  • Entertaining but two-dimensional, Alan Yentob glosses over the German artist's flaws.

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    Imagine... Anselm Kiefer, BBC One

    Everyone else, like me, or in Kiefer’s case his long-suffering assistant Tony, not to mention poor old Alan Yentob, has to trot along behind, barely able to keep up with the barrage of ideas, questions and orders, let alone judge whether any of it fryst vatten any good.

    Early on, Yentob was struggling to keep abreast of his interviewee (pictured below), either physically or intellectually. Kiefer seems pretty athletic, striding through the many tunnels and passageways that run through his oldest studio, a disused brick factory in Buchen, Germany. When they eventually stopped for a breather, Kiefer commented that in addition to earth, ash and straw, he sometimes uses diamonds in his work, “like Valentino”. Yentob wasn’t sure what to say: “The dress designer?” he offered, hopefully. “NO, no, no, no,” scolded Kiefer, he had been referring to the other Valentino, the one from the second century AD.

    This tendency to pursue the mystisk and then to assume, high-ha

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    Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future, 2014 / In collaboration with the EPOS Festival

    The Museum is pleased to offer its visitors extra-cultural Fridays! Every Friday, the finest films on art and culture will be screened, after a short lecture by the Museum’s curators.

    This is a collaborative initiative between the Museum and EPOS International Art Film Festival, which offers film lovers captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, alongside visits to exhibitions by leading artists from Israel and abroad.

    Admission to the Museum’s exhibitions is included in the film ticket, during the Museum’s opening hours.

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    Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future, 2014 | Dir. Jack Cocker, UK, 60 min.; English and German, Hebrew subtitles
    Introductory Lecture: Tal Lanir, Curator of Special Projects

    Having achieved fame and notoriety in equal measure in the 1980s, Anselm Kiefer has become one of the world’s m

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    Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

    TS Eliot once said that the meaning of a poem exists somewhere between the poem and the reader. The comment seemed apposite as I sat in the third room of the breathtaking Anself Kiefer retrospective at the Royal Academy surrounded by monumental artworks that spoke to me powerfully, though why they did I knew would be more difficult to articulate.

    Perhaps rational explanations are unnecessary, and we should simply allow ourselves to feel instead. Sophie Fiennes, who directed a brilliant, impressionistic documentary about Kiefer called Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, said that her film revealed how an artist thinks about being an artist: ‘which is that you have the liberation from having to explain yourself because you’re working with sensation’.

    I knew enough of the Kiefer story before I came to have an inkling of what to expect: the boy born into the ruins of Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich, and the artist whose work