Katharina Grosse: Painting with Color | Art21 'Extended Play'

Episode #218: Shown in her studio and at Johann König Gallery (both in Berlin), artist Katharina Grosse discusses her use of color when painting on three-dimensional and flat surfaces. "I like this anarchic potential of color," says Grosse, who paints very rapidly with an industrial spray gun. Grosse explains that despite an early interest in language and reading, she was attracted to painting because of its non-linear qualities. She elaborates further saying that painting "compresses time, shortening the process of thinking and acting." Among the works featured is an exhibition of the artist's paintings on paper at Johann König Gallery in Berlin.

Katharina Grosse is a painter who often employs electrifying sprayed acrylic colors to create large-scale sculptural environments and smaller wall works. By uniting a fluid perception of landscape with the ordered hierarchy of painting, Grosse treats both architecture and the natural world as an armature for expressive compositions of dreamy abandon, humorous juxtaposition, and futuristic flair. By building up layers of color with an expressive immediacy, she enables her work to become a material record of its own making and, perhaps, an inscription of her thoughts.

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CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producers: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Claus Deubel & Mark Walley. Sound: Oliver Lumpe & Angela Walley. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Katharina Grosse, Johann König Gallery and Nasher Sculpture Center. Archival Images Courtesy: Katharina Grosse. Theme Music: Peter Foley.

"Extended Play" is supported, in part, by 21c Museum Hotel and by individual contributors.

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[artorg]

"I like this anarchic potential of color. Color is actually taking away the boundary of the object, so there is no subject-object relationship anymore. That's maybe what color has the potential to make us think."

—Katharina Grosse, in a new episode from the ART21 "Exclusive" series

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[jennifercoralie]

I love this artist. Thanks so much! What she's doing in public spaces is so exciting.

[andyjacobs]

Katharina Grosse is a great artist. Her new work in Berlins "Hamburger Bahnhof - contemporary museum" is a impressive work of gigantic proportions in many different shapes, structures and brilliant colours. You can contemplate, marvel, fantasize for a whole day or longer.
Wonderful!

[aleybautista]

Love this way to take the paint, love You Katharina !

[franziskabeilfu]

how true: color is hard to describe in words! but Katharina yours are a statement!

[dormaettu]

Concepts and lines will ever be seen as intelligent things because we continue to think that a great idea should be complex

[michaelkim]

The fact that she thinks linguistic structure is linear while painting not is a sure testament to why she’s a painter and not a writer

[djcb]

Look the blue lotus by herge is nor available. enjoy.

[williamwhite]

Your words are not yet up to the promise, lovely work but then what stage have you set your own ? Or one set forth by others, I wish for vision and I'm blind .

[jaydubya]

All I can say is...."Sprockets." I think she is married to Dieter. Oh, never mind...Dieter is gay.

[jackfirmin]

Too bad shes working with König Gallery, whos owner is an alleged woman abuser :-(

[neobourgeoischristum]

Why is it so hard for artist to just make nice stuff.