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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«...
Exhibition tour: January 20-April 2, 1989, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif.; April 30-June 24, 1989, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif., July 14-September 3, 1989, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisc. Bibliography: p. 147-153.
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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...
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Günther Förg was a genuine space artist! Already in 1978 while he was still at the academy, Günther Förg began working with colored spaces, or rather, wall paintings. He liked to tell, laughing, how obvious that seemed to him, given that during his studies he occasionally earned some extra money as a housepainter. In total, he created over 140 wall paintings, and a selection will now be on show at the Deichtorhallen. Günther Förg had been looking forward to the exhibition at the Deichtorhallen; in an interview, already several years ago, he clearly organized this important body of work into several types: »... the first were vertical, later horizontal wall bisections. Furthermore, the...
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Günther Förg: Lead Paintings, Skarstedt, New York, February 19 - March 28, 2015
Edited by Thomas Groetz. Essay by Siegfried Gohr.
Catalogus met alle series etsen, zeefdrukken, fotoreeksen en multiples die de Duitse beeldend kunstenaar (1952) tussen 1974 en 1988 heeft gemaakt.