Claudia Schmid, born in Cologne in 1956, studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna for a solo career as a flutist. She changed over to visual arts at the art Academies in Vienna and Dusseldorf. In 1991 Schmid began to work as a film author and director for German television. Over the years she has realized about
15 documentaries with a focus on artist portraits, among others “Attempts at Love - Werner Schroeter”, “The Silence of Innocence - The Artist Gottfried Helnwein”, “The Redrawn World - The Artist Heinz Emigholz" and her latest, “Richard Deacon - In Between”.
After presentations at Art Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Tate Modern,
Claudia Schmid is the Goethe-Institut’s guest at this year’s Reel Artist Film Festival Toronto with her portrait of British sculptor Deacon.
She will be in conversation with art journalist Terence Dick and show excerpts from her films in our free "Culture talks @ Goethe" at the Goethe-Institut Toronto at 5.30pm, before her film screening at 9pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Why the title "In Between” for Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon? In all of his works, Richard Deacon explores the “in between”, both in form and philosophical content: The relationship between space and form, between negative space and full shapes – presence and absence. Between organic and industrial language of form, amorphous shapes and rational thinking. The ambiguity of language and form, the material as a substance and its malleability. The artwork between the observer and the world, between intimacy, privacy and society. “In Between” is the window between the outside and the inside, between reality and fiction.
In this latest film, the sculptor and filmmaker Claudia Schmid meets the sculptor Richard Deacon. What’s the difference between film-making and sculpture-making?...
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