Gunther Forg Book

Language: en
Pages: 23

Günther Förg - Paintings on Lead

Type: Book
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Published: 2006
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 168

Günther Förg

Author(s): Günther Förg, Rudi Fuchs

Categories: Art

Type: Book
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Published: 2008
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Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

Back and Forth The 100 plus new abstract canvases, carefully reproduced in this book with its unusual format, are the result of one of the most intensive phases of work by Günther Förg in recent years, which took place between Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009. The artist places a sequence of calculated colour fields into a basic grid, which changes from format to format, each individual painting having its own tonal rhythm characterised in turn by a high degree of physical concentration. It is then no coincidence that Rudi Fuchs' linguistically stirring yet acutely observed text discerns an affinity between this work and Piet Mondrians's last und most unusual painting, »Victory Boogie Woogie«...

Language: de
Pages: 56

Günther Förg. Passage : [dieses Buch erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung von Günther Förg in der Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum, Köln vom 25. März bis 22. April 2007]

Author(s): Günther Förg

Categories: Art

Type: Book
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Published: 2007
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Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

You can make something out of nothing Some of the current batch of watercolours were originated on partially sullied sheets of paper, on sheets that had been used either as an underlay for the painting of other watercolours or one that were to hand during this process in order that the artist could dab his brush now and then or test the value of a particular colour. Such literal »working papers« now form the basis for watercolours and paintings, which cover the whole range from cheery fields of paint blots to an intensive encounter between different principles of form. It is self-evident that the quasi self-originating beginnings of this new »pictorial language« also deal with the phenom...