Günther Förg
14 Jun - 30 Aug 2008
GÜNTHER FÖRG
June 14 – Aug 30, 2008
Painting is the focus in the current exhibition of Günther Förg at Galerie Gisela Capitain: Colour and brush strokes are eye-catching on the large-sized canvases. The expressive and colourful marks seem to dance over a subtly painted background of whites and grey and create suspense, without appearing chaotic.
With this conscious use and positioning of colour fields Günther Förg refers back to ideas of Classical Modern Art which already lead Mondrian to his pictorial compositions. Unlike Mondrian, the 1952 born artist Förg, who has a professorship at the academy of art in Munich, doesn’t confine himself to illustrating the primary colours and geometric forms.
Grey, zero point of colour, had already occupied Förg during his studies at the academy in Munich. In later installations and wall paintings the colour grey had the function to emphasize all the supporting elements of an architectural building and to point out a not existing functionality. In some paintings of our current exhibition the non-colour grey is used as background - here it becomes the initial point of reflection about basic principals of painting.
Förg started his artistic career with painting and then explored sculpture and installation as well as print-making and photography, but he always returned back to his roots as a painter.
Sarah Moog
June 14 – Aug 30, 2008
Painting is the focus in the current exhibition of Günther Förg at Galerie Gisela Capitain: Colour and brush strokes are eye-catching on the large-sized canvases. The expressive and colourful marks seem to dance over a subtly painted background of whites and grey and create suspense, without appearing chaotic.
With this conscious use and positioning of colour fields Günther Förg refers back to ideas of Classical Modern Art which already lead Mondrian to his pictorial compositions. Unlike Mondrian, the 1952 born artist Förg, who has a professorship at the academy of art in Munich, doesn’t confine himself to illustrating the primary colours and geometric forms.
Grey, zero point of colour, had already occupied Förg during his studies at the academy in Munich. In later installations and wall paintings the colour grey had the function to emphasize all the supporting elements of an architectural building and to point out a not existing functionality. In some paintings of our current exhibition the non-colour grey is used as background - here it becomes the initial point of reflection about basic principals of painting.
Förg started his artistic career with painting and then explored sculpture and installation as well as print-making and photography, but he always returned back to his roots as a painter.
Sarah Moog