how does this co operation work? what can we humans learn from it? or leave more intelligent in a swarm? 40 to the answer to almost everything in 60 minutes, dw. so you want to know what makes the german you just did the john love and banning thing with them away from that. but i'm not even know how to work my own car and everyone with later holes in every day getting. are you ready to meet the german can join me, rachel stuart on d. w. i go hunt fish dog is one of the world's most consummate contemporary artists. one who gets to the heart of the very nature of painting. he has a remarkable ability to reinvent himself time and again over the decades he's been

a photo realist and an abstract artist whose work fetch his record son's abstract of bait, fin funded. $0.99 was sold to an art collector in 2015 for over $46000000.00 in risk of food. i always have the feeling that everything is botched. it's not on the other hand bank guess it's better than others. that's usually how it goes. with ah, what makes got christ as so extraordinary? why did he become one of the most expensive contemporary artists in the world and are established artists about to end up sideline by digital innovations, like none fungible tokens out from veiled, follows the money on the international market.

get honda vista has just caused a small sensation in berlin by providing the german capital with a long term loan of 100 of his ard works. they went on display at the noise. that's when i got up he early this spring, a special room in the exhibition is devoted to the 2014 buick and out cycle rest is artistic examination based on photos of the darkest chapter in german history. the holocaust stuff. azusa approaches his paintings in a very, very reflective and complex way. when the young, of course has a long background in painting and imagery. so he is very aware of what a picture can express it. also look, yukon. mm. so after city, just of course i address issues that will move me. but critical painter sounds

a bit. nicholas. a soon legacy from frank o for decades gearhart vista has been one of the world's most important contemporary artists. his success is unparalleled. he's one of the greatest, the most expensive, the most famous artists of our time. we met him at one of his most recent public appearances in 2018 at an opening, where he took questions from journalists. expressing his creativity and words doesn't come easily to him. it's been often as it's tomorrow. my main interest is to paint the eye through my position so i don't know that's difficult. the here is the for them to do what i was gonna. who was he feel?

krista is considered a true gentleman. always a little reserved, his art should speak for itself. he feels at 91. his works re record prices on the art market, sells and fish, etc. but i feel he's a special case because he grew up on the national socialism was educated under socialism and then became successful under capitalism for high. so he does have a complex background. this is from the complex a chic did he admit things he knew from an early age that painting was what he wanted to do in my life when talking about painting is not only very difficult, but perhaps even pointless. perhaps his stereotypical question is also part of it. what were you thinking about? you can't think of anything because painting is it different for my thinking was get hot. vista was born in dresden in 1932

the germans city was reduced to rubble during world war 2. in the years following the war, germany was divided into east and west. president was in the heart of what was now communist east germany in 1950. he applied to study at residence university of fine arts, but was rejected and intriguing footnote in the career of this internationally renowned artist a year later he applied again this time he was accepted. ready ready in dresden, we meet a long time friend of the artist. deed my alga is the director of the god of h to archive and also wrote a biography of him. he explains why vision left communist east germany, a sculptor. that's why it's him to come after the 2nd documentary gratian to experimented with abstraction. but these works had to stay in the draw in communist east germany. he couldn't really show them all to and from this came the desire to

continue this work in a different political situation without that being the decisive factor. so it wasn't a political decision, but rather a decision for a different kind of auction as fi and i child feel, and the under const ah vista fled to the west in 1961. his later success is likely due to his unusual biography. few artists experienced both germany's he made a conscious decision to go to duesseldorf. at the time it was a major hub of artists and collectors. he studied at the prestigious dusseldorf art academy meeting fellow artists, including sigma poca khan hard lu egg. and man said kutner, they created what was done to capitalist realism as a reaction to the socialist realism of the communist east. as far like a mine shaft, it was an important community for him because of the live, the exchange cops. it was a whole new world images, a media world, newspapers,

or magazines, calendar, palest, let that he discovered it done through the and from which he created his own artistic world of it shuffled. like many other artists in the 19 sixty's christian also processed western consumerism in his early work. he found inspiration and magazines fascinated by the interplay of reality and appearance. he painted photo realistic images, deliberately blurring them. them. that's for clayschmidt. it. if i compare it with a newspaper, clipping, what he's done is turn a small printed image into a large pink child. his painted image takes on a more photographic character just by the fact that it seems blurred, aimed out to focus on shop, to bestow bridge, to actually wanted to take photos with his painting. it was a time when people thought painting no longer play to roll ice began hunting, has become superfluous. we have photography. we have thousands of millions of

pictures. we don't need painting a tool anymore. and in this time, rich to succeeded in asserting the importance of hunting over photography to boston. a few other artists are as eager to experiment as gahan vista, his interest in arts potential is boundless o, for decades he has also worked with abstraction. these abstract works are the ones that sell an astronomical prices. anacortes and gentlemen, we move on to the extraordinary character, the $192.00 fathered. the 1st work in rick, this expansive color child series, and the alt is very 1st abstract painting. the pre auction price for this piece was estimated at $16.00 to $20000000.00. what makes a single piece of work by a contemporary artist so valuable the work belonged to

a collector's family. one that art expert, best gen, lighter has known for years. good relationships are crucial in the art market. trust is a precious commodity. the work hundreds by annoyance, his father was privately owned for 40 years. gearhart finished a created the peace in 1966 influenced by pop art and industrial color sample cards . this seminal work was also the basis for a stained glass window and the cologne cathedral, designed by a vista unveiled in 2007. it's one of the german artists most popular works at 12 bastion loiter, attended. the much anticipated auction. the fish to expert believes it's high estimated value was justified. trend of the sands. i mean, this is a very radical painting. it's the 1st abstract lead he painted, right. and when you consider what he would do later on in life, the 1st abstract work is quite a groundbreaking statement. yeah, i'm saga. i'm going to saw the bidding here at 10000000,

500000 pounds. so 10 minute, 500011 1000000 barrels. 12000000 prompts torbella's 500000 pounds. 13000000 pounds . 14000000 pounds. thank you. 50000000. 200000. at 15000000. 700000. but thank you very much. on this, after 7 minutes, the painting went to an anonymous buyer. all said and done. it cost more than $20000000.00 us dollars. why is someone prepared to hand over such a sum throughout his artistic career vista had strategically build his position in the market establishment as such? yeah, he already had a 3 galleries in the 3 different german cities by 960 fool guns. and it really took off from math help. suddenly and 1960, safely had a galleria, an exhibition in a gallery in venice, and in another italian city to. so he positioned himself well, very early on of the school, was it soon yet pushed a knew how to market himself and how to win over gallery owners and collectors. legendary gallery owner mary anne goodman was instrumental in establishing him in

the u. s. market. she introduced alicia to the most influential collectors is i'm gonna get, he had his own ideas and he wasn't influenced by trends. and i think that's the big problem to day. that sometimes artists because they don't have enough time anymore to develop israel, actually let themselves be influenced too much by the slight geist vista's work has been photo realistic abstract. and he's even experimented with digital techniques. throughout his career, his work has taken unexpected turns. his art react to developments in society. he provokes debate. for example, with his series of paintings on the activities and debts of the r, a. f terrorists, the red army faction, a left wing extremist group, and germany killed. 34 people from the 1970s to the early 19 nineties revealing deep cracks in west germany list,

his focus was less interested in the victims than in the perpetrators and approach that drew criticism. so the status is heading up by lucas, be it the fact that mr. grew up in east germany under a very strict def political ideology, certainly played a role yet. here again, he was confronted with ideology. ari of terrorism was politically motivated, at least originally fully tish. it came out of the student movement homelessness and wanted something, although it later evolved into pure political terrorism. i'm to talk for leaders in town or even to for fish and figured out onto these of this futility of woven public and private ideologies. login this failure. if i all righty, you're lucky. this is confrontational with common, hope,

awful and dizzy, which then also failed terribly wise at that for every wider than 2nd. you've are crowding that her per traitors and there are many victim to say it was offered. if you not far the failure of ideology, i think is what interested wished her you leave. lesson wilson is a site on one e d. o he does is the scholars list are in place yet that mr. explores the wounds and scars of german history in his own family, to uncle hoodie and the ss next to aunt marianna, a victim of the nazi euthanasia. policy, the artist, questions if it is possible to paint the horror of the holocaust. ah. in 2014, he again came across old photos that moved him deeply. they are the only known pictures taken secretly by prisoners of

a special corpse burning unit in the outfits book anal. concentration camp. the basis for the book now cycle of works ah, vista rendered the 4 photographs with charcoal and oil paint on the 4 canvases. then gradually painted over them abstractly working from july to september 2014. with each layer, the painted template disappeared a little more until it was finally no longer visible. the paint covers and yet the horror remains palpable, indelible beneath. ah ah, those funds for those de, from ireland the photos were taken by an inmate and smuggled out of the reason, but they were very blurry. lamens are doth, you can't make how much check is his posse yet,

but you can see something absolutely horrible was happening in tuscany when he found these folks as he was a fascinated fort and tried to capture them in paintings and off my law to give them a deeper morning cause and presence that done of august in thus d, but he realized that painting can't achieve that life. can't achieve the shock and intensity of these high from photos in the books laughed in. and he started to abstractly paint over her there and find the half finished image josefa obstruct sort of a model. this does be a canal cycle, is one of his most seminal works. he reproduced the 4 paintings and several different forms, including an aluminum print for the high stock building in berlin. he sees the paintings as a way to engage in a conversation about what art can contribute to the culture of remembrance.

now at over 90 years, old lister has given up large format painting and gifted the pieces to berlin on permanent loan, a legacy deliberately left not to his native city of dresden or his adopted home of cologne. but of the prussian cultural heritage foundation in berlin. he's at sucrose yacht, mentioned the cycle, has already been a topic of discussion worldwide, causing quite a sensation. it was on a world tour. you could see it in japan, america, many places. it makes a strong statement that these images are intolerable. they can't be shown artistically. at least not directly, they need to be raised to through cala and abstraction. it's like a mirror, an invitation to the observer to reflect and to come to terms with the subject mat

samsung. it's a very interesting concept, the sort of commemorative space that makes you ask yourself, what can a painting convey and where it's limits as a medium for molig. i. ready for some 2 decades get hot, vista has been at the top of the international artist ranking cons to compass his position and the art market consolidates his artistic value since the 1980s his works have been sold at staggering prices, especially the so called squeegee paintings. where he uses flexible perspex to distribute pain. abstract painting, $599.00, sold for over $46000000.00. as i say often, it's also a reality that at the moment, which does later abstract pictures have a higher value than his early photo realistic looks. and this is strange and away because there are many more of the abstracts than of the artists early works. but here it's current tastes which of course, play a big role back. in particular, it's the works from 1986 onwards, which are of course, very,

very recognizable and have a very high aesthetic impact to fulfill. that's definitely the case. and that naturally appeals to many people, including some of those who are now collecting those. he pay really high prices for works of arts back are of course often people who do not necessarily have the background, who are perhaps not so incredibly well versed in art history, eloquence cautious elkin glister had plenty of time to develop as an artist, the pre digital age was far less fast paced than the 21st century. he had to give up the large format, squeegee paintings due to dwindling strength. but he still paints small formats to this day. i'm tired and the cost of the significance is the panoramic spectrum of his paintings, including the elements of chance and technicality with him. in so far it won't take you some, but it's also due to the fact that the strategies to verified in some of his compositions are so unique and thought provoking. and the answer arctic sent on to

belong in, aka dot. we haven't glitched his work has an extraordinary resonance. the buchanan cycle is set to get its own room in 2026. in the museum of the 20th century. currently being built at berlin's go to a form there, the cycle will find its final home which does isn't the only work fetching sky high prices, the art market is dominated by big money. and some of the going under the hammer at the major auction houses doesn't even have a tangible form to some known, fungible tokens all. and if t's are a fad, but to others, that the future every

days the 1st $5000.00 days apiece by the digital artist people wrote art history when it unexpectedly sold for $69000000.00 us dollars at christie's auction house. another highlight of the crypto art craze was the board ab yacht club buyers of n f t monkeys also got access to exclusive events. in no time the board 8 yacht club became the status symbol for celebrities and 2021. at the height of the height, one of the pieces was traded for more than $2000000.00 us dollars. in 2022 similar works of art even made it into museums. the constant hazardous in switzerland hosted a comprehensive show covering the emerging crypto art scene. one person who knows his way around this new world of inept ease is german digital artist, manuel hosanna. he expanded the exhibition to include

a virtual reality of his own creation. let's start with the basics. what exactly is an empty? so how do i start in, ah, for an f t. so i have to understand the blocking and debts a lot of computers in that store, the same kind of information. and because there are so many and you can't just go there and change some information because the others written notice. and by that you don't need some person to check all of that, that's happening automatically and, and now instead of only such a string, manly transaction, so who owns what? you can also at an end of t, which means that der so called wallet that you own, is registered on the block chain and attests. you own this so called token.

why is this so revolutionary? because everything can be certified with it. it's the digitized form of an asset. this wasn't possible before digital art and files could be copied. the term n f t comes from the world of crypto currencies, and that's where many new art collectors come from. they trade in crypto currency and have become wealthy in digital spaces for the art market. this technology is a revolution. prices formerly secret are now posted publicly on websites as well as who bought what and when to really capture the dynamics and the, the scale of all the digital possibilities. i think this medium is really the right one. um and being able to interact with collectors in this way is something new and something very powerful and helpful for digital artist. of course, artists like manuel hoss now are suddenly earning money with their digital art. he's now a prime mover on the german crypto art market. and has created his own museum for his n f t collection. virtually, of course,

his works can be seen in international exhibitions. trading and empties has been a global phenomenon for around 3 years. despite the extreme price fluctuations of crypto currencies. they are seen as a revolutionary opportunity to change the global art market. global participation is the key. in the past only well established institutions were in control. market outsiders couldn't break n. the experience of latin american artists shows how this is changing. our next stop is columbia. in moonlighting, john is the pen. today's world. there are millions of people who create cultural products, who suits sell the work. so cultural property, but who simply upload it to network such as instagram, figured out what or for a like in the fall of a little house below where behind the so called web free point. oh, is a different kind of philosophy here. office can upload the work for more than any from hans or a like. here they might get a dollar, you know, to $10000.00 or even

a $1000000.00. so this allows artists to manage themselves without a gallery, as an intermediary, especially in countries like olympia. this is a real opportunity since crypto currencies are recognized by the state bank as an official means of payment. during the pandemic, many artists in the country began posting and marketing their works and virtual spaces. however, the height may have run its course. many crypto currencies have crashed, which has also affected the n f t trade, but not brought it to a standstill. back to germany. here some berlin gallery owners are showing a cautious openness to the n f t market. berlin gallery, naga docs law, has opened the crypto kiosk, crypto artists are exhibited here, but it's not their main focus, and they advise collectors to be conscious this

is stephanie sheila, it's a bit of a gamble equivalent. it's speculation one and the media inflate individual legs very strongly said the aunt market itself in nf, please in that's a very small percentage. heat is that 5 percent and sad to some firms would tend instability and crypto currency markets has dampened the frenzy and damaged confidence. in the new market, but there is still potential and venturing into the metaphors and, but the big bugs are still made with time tested masters at the established institutions. and 15, there are now many new players in the market. the market is relatively table and all it's now often bought as an investment of whether you think that's good or not initially, but i, the very young aunt is bored. old people return to positions that have proof that was in the market to artists who have already passed the historical tests, so to speak, and an artist like you fished, investing in art can be

a profitable undertaking for those who can drum up the millions for works by the likes of god arista. as for the rest of us, we can always stop by the museum. thank you very much. that said that the sedition of aunt sundale see you again next time. ah ah, with

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