Achim was driven by the notion that through exhibitions it should be possible to get closer to the subject “as a living breathing artist, [a] human being. Achim was born in Düren, Germany, to Günter Borchardt and Anna Maria Struck. Rather than present the ‘greatest hits’ in the recent Rodin exhibition at Tate Modern, Borchardt-Hume chose the medium of plaster to give us a route into an artist whose work we thought we knew. As I experienced when working with Achim at Tate, he liked to challenge art orthodoxy. Achim is survived by his wife, Laura Hume, whom he married in 1995, their children, Saskia, Tom and Matti, and his sisters, Claudia and Rita.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2021 02:19 UTC