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Günther Förg (b. 1952)
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signed, titled and dated '29/12/89 Canto Forg' (upper right)
acrylic, enamel and chalk on paper
83 x 58½in. (211 x 148.5cm.)
Executed in 1989

Provenance

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.
Property from the Estate of Fredrik Roos.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 26 October 1995, lot 130.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Günther Förg, 1990-1991. This exhibition later traveled to Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst; Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Kunst; Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen (illustrated in colour on the cover of the catalogue and p. 111).

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Lot Essay

'Förg's artistic concept is marked by velocity and dexterity and an unambiguous approach. He works in series and sequences of pictures. Since his early orientation with Twombly and Palermo during his studies at Munich Academy, he has progressively expanded his artistic area of expertise. Förg does not invoke, but uses his work more as a reminiscence, a memory of modernity, whose artefacts flow out of stream of forgetfulness wrung from his raw and open work process, and through it's stubborn Anti-Formalism, allows the view a participating and unexploited gaze. (E. Schneider, quoted in, Förg, exh. cat., Cologne, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001, n.p.).

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