Name: Steve ReichGerhard Richter
Start: 2019-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Colin Currie

Britten Sinfonia

Orchestra

Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Public

Private

Concert

Runner (Music for Ensemble and Orchestra)

Approved

Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter: Runner (Music for Ensemble and Orchestra) Reich

Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter – two giants of contemporary culture – come together in a major new collaboration: a cinematic exploration of Richter’s intense, abstract painting 946-3.

Steve Reich: the composer who redefined the very concept of rhythm – and whose vitality interrogates and transforms everything it touches. Gerhard Richter: a titan of contemporary art, a master of light capable of charging abstract forms with intense emotional power.

Together with Britten Sinfonia they’ve combined original music and digital visuals, algorithmically derived from Richter’s painting, to create an artwork that is boundlessly more than the sum of its parts. ‘A stream of images, its rhythmic flow interpreted by music and, at the same time, a musical composition visualized by film images’ is how Richter describes a collaboration that’s likely to be one of the most significant moments in contemporary art this year.

English

Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter by Reich, From (2019/2019), Conductor Colin Currie, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

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