This new exhibition of Günther Förg (1952-2013) brings together a collection of twelve paintings on large sheets of Canson paper, made at the very end of the twentieth century (1996 – 2000). Most of them have never been shown before. Förg refused to be pigeonholed into any artistic school or movement, whether abstract or figurative. He saw himself as a free artist, taking inspiration as much from observing reality around him as from the work of the major artists he admired.
This new grouping of works evokes – in an allusive and never ponderous manner – Ernst Wilhelm Nay or Nicolas de Staël, Edvard Munch or Alberto Giacometti (The knee), as well as the artist’s own recurrent themes and structures such as grids and windows.
Each of these works reveals the marvellous ease and accuracy that characterised the artist’s touch as well as the supple liveliness of his brush. Ten years after his untimely death, his work has become a point of reference and an inspiration for many young artists.
