Gerhard Richter: MOVING PICTURES, Steve Reich / Rebecca Saunders / Ensemble Musikfabrik

In the organizer's words:

The painter, graphic artist and photographer Gerhard Richter is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary artists. He was born in Dresden in 1932, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and worked there as a master student until he fled to West Germany in 1961. 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. Steve Reich developed a typical and masterfully controlled minimalist sound world with the film sequences. "Reich/Richter" was first performed 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 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, the compositions of Steve Reich and Rebecca Saunders will make it possible to experience Gerhard Richter's visual worlds in a completely new way in the Great Hall of the Festspielhaus Hellerau in this extraordinary and immersive film concert project with "hypnotizing and absolute sharpness" (Rebecca Saunders).