C A T A L O G U E

EXHIBITION

GÜNTHER FÖRG

Günther Förg (5 December 1952 – 5 December 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting.

Förg's artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Förg combined materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art.

Between 1973 (Förg's first year as a student at The Academy of Fine Art Munich) and 1976, Förg painted almost exclusively black monochrome canvas pictures in acrylic, which, with the addition of a translucent grey, produced a milky, veiled surface effect. After the death of his artistic colleague, Blinky Palermo, Förg pursued the latter's European legacy of American Minimal Art from 1977. Palermo has been quoted as saying, in reference to Förg, “the art is near as beautiful as the man”. It is unclear whether this was meant as an insult of compliment. His paintings in abstract styles recall Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly and others.

In the early 1980s, Förg made his so-called Alubilder – assemblages of aluminium sheeting onto which the artist had painted linear patterns or portrait photographs. For his series of paintings on lead, dating from the 1980s and 1990s, he wrapped lead sheets over wood, then painted each surface with acrylic

(WIKIPEDIA)

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THE EXHIBITION TOOK PLACE:

HAAGS GEMEENTEMUSEUM

THE HAGUE

1988

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COLOPHON:

ORGANISATION EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE

FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTION:

FLIP BOOL

RUDI FUCHS

PHOTOGRAPHS:

COURTESY GALERIE MAX HETZLER & GALERIE CAPITAIN

COLOGNE

PRINTING:

SELLIER

FREISING

EDITION:

2000 COPIES

PUBLISHED BY:

GEMEENTEMUSEUM

DEN HAAG

1988

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SIZED:

CENTIMETERS: 21 X 27

PAGES: 146

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CONDITION

GENERAL:

REASONABLE TO GOOD

COVER:

LIGHTLY RUBBED AND DISCOLOURED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED, SOME LIGHT STAINS AND SMALL SPOTS

SPINE:

IDEM

PAGES: 

HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE

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