ICONAUTA, "Rhythm 23 (1923) Hans Richter", www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4R2RKo8vV8

Artwork referring to the artist's visual researches for the movies "Rhythmus 21, 23, 25". "Rhythmus 23 (1923) is markedly more complex both in its execution of the movement, and in the varieties of forms. It premiered in Paris during the film program of the Soiree du Coeur à Barbe. Again, Richter’s design did not include curves or ellipses, focusing only on the use of rectilinear elements and straight lines. His earlier film experiments with adapting his 1919 scroll painting Praludium were incorporated into the finished film that primarily employed diagonal motifs in its organization. Where Rhythmus 21 was built from the figure/field dynamics of solid planes and shapes in motion, the reintroduction of linear elements made in his initial film experiment allows a dynamic exploration of the relationships between solid and linear forms, and shows a construction of the differences and similarities between them. The different graphic potentials of these forms becomes apparent: as in the Richter’s first completed film, Rhythmus 23 employs positive and negative loop printing to reverse the figure/field relationships of his forms, but with the additional factor posed by the linear elements as a mediating force in their spatial relationship." - Michael Betancourt, "Hans Richter's Abstract Rhythms"

AA.VV.,"Hans Richter. La traversée du siècle", Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2013-2014

Sitography: BETANCOURT, Michael, "Hans Richter's Abstract Rhythms", 27/03/2011.
www.cinegraphic.net/article.php?story=20110326134212560&mode=print
MASI LUGANO, “Hans Richter”, www.e-mca.ti.ch
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McCLENATHAN, Erin, “Hans Richter’s Rhythmus Films in G: The Collective Cinematographic”,
www.invisibleculturejournal.com
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/hans-richter-rhythmus-films/release/1