Dialogues in Art According to Günther Förg

Günther Förg was an artist who sought a dialogue with the modernist tradition. Considered one of the most significant figures of the postwar generation in Germany, he was a prolific painter, sculptor, graphic artist and photographer. He sought to give brilliant and witty responses to the figuration of Paul Klee, the formal abstraction of Blinky Palermo and the expressionism of Edvard Munch, among other artists he most admired. He has left us a conceptual revision of the history of art through a work that avoids fixed categorisation. His pictorial language resorts to abstraction. Förg appropriated the hidden meanings of modern art and architecture in his ceaseless transformations of colour, form and composition, imitating and reacting against gestures or principles of image making that he pushed to the limit.  Entitled Trunk Road and Branch Roads, this ambitious presentation brings together around 100 paintings made throughout the artist's career, focusing entirely on Förg's painting practice and combining distinctive series, such as his Spot Paintings, Grid Paintings and Gray Paintings.