Anselm Kiefer

And the artists who've shown there are serious.

Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calais, Wim Wenders, William Kentridge.

Its CO Existence poster project in 2000 traveled to more than 35 cities.

End of the family.

Hmm.

And that was the Anselm Kiefer show.

Oh, yeah.

When he had that big show at the Royal Academy of Art.

And so, saying that a lot of my instrumental pieces, it's different when I'm setting text, I would say, but the instrumental concert works, there's often a kind of extra musical idea.

And in this case, I was thinking a lot about landscape, back to painters, Anselm Kiefer is another, like Richter, a great German, and he has this expression and he says, there's no such thing as an innocent landscape.

And I read that and I thought, that's really true.

We think of landscape or the equivalent in orchestral music is the pastoral, which is really a through line in centuries of orchestral repertoire is to see a lot of the big composers wrote these pastoral symphonies.

Yeah, definitely.

And I-I think the way they would bring, you know, like the, the context of art history to my, you know, table and be like, "Look at this," and, "I think you'd really love this" and- You know, I was really, um, inspired by, like Anselm Kiefer at, you know, near 12, and was making quite, like lots of landscape paintings and lots of, like tears, and you're filled with that sort of angst of being a teenager and [laughs]-

Yeah, yeah

... um [laughs]

Nick cites his influences from, coincidentally, several artists from past eras with surnames beginning with the letter V. Villar, Velázquez, Van Gogh and Vermeer.

His contemporary inspirations are more evenly distributed among the alphabet via Anselm Kiefer, Paula Rego and Peter Doig.

Nick is a self-taught artist and his independent approach has led to significant milestones including a recent solo exhibition at 54 The Gallery in London's Mayfair.

He's been based in Cornwall for many years, and his garden is so spectacular that he opens it up to visitors each year as part of the National Garden Scheme.

There's this kind of a weird, a little weird... offshoot, but I do feel like these two kind of fit in there.

Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys.

Now, Joseph Beuys' work is kind of all over the map and gets into some socio-political stuff, and they both do, respectively.

Both kind of dealing with the post-World War II German identity crisis.

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