(Institute for Contemporary Art) after several years of discussion with berliners and the city authorities, finally opened 3 days ago, an exhibition about the RAF a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group. The deadliest terrorist organisation in recent German history.
Another couple of articles one in german language here sueddeutsche zeitung, and one in english here >>
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I wonder if Gerhard Richter's series of paintings titled October 18, 1977 had anything to do with this?
Andrea Baader was the leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang, the name Rote Armee Fraktion was created in order to imply that the group was larger than what it was and was part of a greater revolutionary army. After Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and the other top members of the group were captured and commited suicide, new generations of the RAF appeared. I think that until the 90s.
When I was looking for links about this exhibition I kept on finding Richter's work. His name is on the artist list but I dont know exactly what work is in this exhibition.
here are some images of "October 18, 1977" by Richter.
Germany seems to have a strange fascination with terrorism. In 2003 the Goethe Institute at the German Embassy in Los Angeles had a "terrorism on film" series. It featured documentaries on groups such as the RAF and other narrative films. It was really well done.
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