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Günther Förg
Closer
Inaugurazione: giovedì 15 novembre 2012 dalle 19 alle 21
16 novembre 2012 - 26 gennaio 2013
martedì - sabato; 11-19
La galleria Giò Marconi è lieta di annunciare la prima mostra personale di Günther Förg “Closer” negli spazi di via Tadino 15.
Figura di spicco nel panorama artistico degli anni ’80, Förg è un personaggio chiave di un’influente generazione di artisti tedeschi fra cui Martin Kippenberger, Georg Herold e Albert Oehlen. La sua ricerca all’interno del Modernismo prende spunti pittorici dall’architettura, dalla scultura e dalla fotografia per riflettersi sia sull’esperienza individuale sia sulla memoria storica.
Il lavoro di Günther Förg spazia dalla pittura alle opere grafiche, dalle sculture alle fotografie di architettura. Le sue pitture murali monocrome e i dipinti su piombo sono riflessioni sull’arte, con riferimenti a Barnett Newman, Jean Fautrier, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch e alla pittura astratta americana.
In occasione della mostra saranno presentati una serie di acrilici di varie dimensioni, tutti realizzati tra il 2005 e il 2006. Punto focale e dipinto di maggior rilievo della mostra è un quadro composto da tre tele realizzato nel 2005, che con i suoi 12 metri di lunghezza invaderà la sala più grande della galleria, rievocando un’opera murale.
La serie dei "grid painting", proposta in questa mostra, deriva da dipinti quali “La morte di Marat” di Munch, opera figurativa il cui primo piano e sfondo sono costituiti da intersezioni di linee astratte, verticali ed orizzontali, di differenti colori.
Attratto dal significato astratto e profondo della pittura del XX secolo Förg non ha paura di utilizzarne il linguaggio per elaborare la sua personale visione dell’arte.
Günther Förg (1952-2013) nasce nel 1952 a Füssen e si forma presso “l’Akademie der Bildenden Künste” di Monaco con Karl Fred Dahmen.
Dal 1992 al 1999, insegna alla Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung ZKM a Karlsruhe. Dal 1999 Förg lavora come docente “all’Akademie der Bildenden Künste” di Monaco.
Günther Förg vive e lavora a Colombier in Svizzera.
*L'artista Günther Förg è venuto a mancare il 5 dicembre 2013 all'età di 61 anni.
I lavori di Förg sono stati presentati in innumerevoli istituzioni internazionali, tra cui: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1989), Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (1991), Documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995), Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid (1998), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (1998), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003), Kunsthalle, Bremen (2006), Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2008), Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009-2010).Le sue opere sono conservate in importanti collezioni internazionali tra le quali: MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MMK, Frankfurt; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam e la Tate Modern, London.
Closer
Inaugurazione: giovedì 15 novembre 2012 dalle 19 alle 21
16 novembre 2012 - 26 gennaio 2013
martedì - sabato; 11-19
La galleria Giò Marconi è lieta di annunciare la prima mostra personale di Günther Förg “Closer” negli spazi di via Tadino 15.
Figura di spicco nel panorama artistico degli anni ’80, Förg è un personaggio chiave di un’influente generazione di artisti tedeschi fra cui Martin Kippenberger, Georg Herold e Albert Oehlen. La sua ricerca all’interno del Modernismo prende spunti pittorici dall’architettura, dalla scultura e dalla fotografia per riflettersi sia sull’esperienza individuale sia sulla memoria storica.
Il lavoro di Günther Förg spazia dalla pittura alle opere grafiche, dalle sculture alle fotografie di architettura. Le sue pitture murali monocrome e i dipinti su piombo sono riflessioni sull’arte, con riferimenti a Barnett Newman, Jean Fautrier, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch e alla pittura astratta americana.
In occasione della mostra saranno presentati una serie di acrilici di varie dimensioni, tutti realizzati tra il 2005 e il 2006. Punto focale e dipinto di maggior rilievo della mostra è un quadro composto da tre tele realizzato nel 2005, che con i suoi 12 metri di lunghezza invaderà la sala più grande della galleria, rievocando un’opera murale.
La serie dei "grid painting", proposta in questa mostra, deriva da dipinti quali “La morte di Marat” di Munch, opera figurativa il cui primo piano e sfondo sono costituiti da intersezioni di linee astratte, verticali ed orizzontali, di differenti colori.
Attratto dal significato astratto e profondo della pittura del XX secolo Förg non ha paura di utilizzarne il linguaggio per elaborare la sua personale visione dell’arte.
Günther Förg (1952-2013) nasce nel 1952 a Füssen e si forma presso “l’Akademie der Bildenden Künste” di Monaco con Karl Fred Dahmen.
Dal 1992 al 1999, insegna alla Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung ZKM a Karlsruhe. Dal 1999 Förg lavora come docente “all’Akademie der Bildenden Künste” di Monaco.
Günther Förg vive e lavora a Colombier in Svizzera.
*L'artista Günther Förg è venuto a mancare il 5 dicembre 2013 all'età di 61 anni.
I lavori di Förg sono stati presentati in innumerevoli istituzioni internazionali, tra cui: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1989), Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (1991), Documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995), Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid (1998), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (1998), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003), Kunsthalle, Bremen (2006), Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2008), Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009-2010).Le sue opere sono conservate in importanti collezioni internazionali tra le quali: MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MMK, Frankfurt; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam e la Tate Modern, London.
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Günther Förg
Closer
Opening: Thursday, November 15 2012, from 7pm to 9pm
November 16, 2012 - January 26, 2013
From Tuesday to Saturday; 11-19
Giò Marconi Gallery is very pleased to announce Günther Förg’s first solo exhibition “Closer” at the gallery.
Förg is a well-known figure in the 1980s and a key member of an influential generation of German artists including Martin Kippenberger, Georg Herold and Albert Oehlen. His distinct investigations into Modernism take painterly issues into the realms of architecture, sculpture, and photography to reflect on both individual experience and historical memory.
Günther Förg's artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. There are references of Barnett Newman, Jean Fautrier, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch and American abstract painting in his works.
On display at the gallery will be a series of different sized canvases that were all produced in the years 2005 and 2006. The focal point and most prominent work of the exhibition is a 3-piece canvas from 2005 with a length of 12 meters that will inhabit the gallery's major exhibition room and that is, due to its size, reminiscent of wall paintings.All the works that are presented in “closer” belong to Förg’s famous "grid painting" series.
Since 1992, paintings and works on paper, known as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Günther Förg's work. The idea and inspiration of these grid paintings derive from paintings such as Munch’s “Death of Marat”, a figurative work whose back- and foreground wholly consists of different coloured abstract grids. Förg is interested in the abstract and radical meaning of paintings of that important period of the 20th century and he is not afraid of using it for his own understanding of art.
Günther Förg was born in Füssen in 1952 and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden
Künste, Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen.
From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung ZKM in Karlsruhe. Since 1999 Förg has been working as a professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.
Günther Förg lives and works in Colombier, Switzerland.
*On his birthday, 5 December 2013, german artist Günther Förg died at age 61.
The works of Günther Förg were presented in innumerable international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1989), Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (1991), Documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995), Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid (1998), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (1998), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2001); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003), Kunsthalle, Bremen (2006), Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2008), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (2009-2010).
His works are in important international collections such as the MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Städel Museum Frankfurt Main; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MMK, Frankfurt Main; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; Foundation Prada, Milano.
Closer
Opening: Thursday, November 15 2012, from 7pm to 9pm
November 16, 2012 - January 26, 2013
From Tuesday to Saturday; 11-19
Giò Marconi Gallery is very pleased to announce Günther Förg’s first solo exhibition “Closer” at the gallery.
Förg is a well-known figure in the 1980s and a key member of an influential generation of German artists including Martin Kippenberger, Georg Herold and Albert Oehlen. His distinct investigations into Modernism take painterly issues into the realms of architecture, sculpture, and photography to reflect on both individual experience and historical memory.
Günther Förg's artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. There are references of Barnett Newman, Jean Fautrier, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch and American abstract painting in his works.
On display at the gallery will be a series of different sized canvases that were all produced in the years 2005 and 2006. The focal point and most prominent work of the exhibition is a 3-piece canvas from 2005 with a length of 12 meters that will inhabit the gallery's major exhibition room and that is, due to its size, reminiscent of wall paintings.All the works that are presented in “closer” belong to Förg’s famous "grid painting" series.
Since 1992, paintings and works on paper, known as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Günther Förg's work. The idea and inspiration of these grid paintings derive from paintings such as Munch’s “Death of Marat”, a figurative work whose back- and foreground wholly consists of different coloured abstract grids. Förg is interested in the abstract and radical meaning of paintings of that important period of the 20th century and he is not afraid of using it for his own understanding of art.
Günther Förg was born in Füssen in 1952 and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden
Künste, Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen.
From 1992 until 1999, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung ZKM in Karlsruhe. Since 1999 Förg has been working as a professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.
Günther Förg lives and works in Colombier, Switzerland.
*On his birthday, 5 December 2013, german artist Günther Förg died at age 61.
The works of Günther Förg were presented in innumerable international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1989), Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (1991), Documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995), Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid (1998), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (1998), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2001); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003), Kunsthalle, Bremen (2006), Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2008), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (2009-2010).
His works are in important international collections such as the MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Städel Museum Frankfurt Main; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MMK, Frankfurt Main; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; Foundation Prada, Milano.