Günther Förg make it new (2004) hand signed print RARE

Günther Förg - make it new (2004). Offset lithograph - Recklinghausen, 2004. Hand signed and dated 2004 by the artist. From an exhibition of painting, photography, and sculpture at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany.

Acquired from Galerie Friedrichs GmbH in Kranenburg. Dimensions - art 43x60cm - with frame 48x65cm. Wooden frame, with archive quality acrylic glass.

Günther Förg (1952 - 2013). Förg's artistic oeuvre encompasses paintings, graphic and sculptural works as well as a great body of architectural photographs. His geometrical, abstract, and heavily dyed pictures have a strong decorative character. Förg combined materials and media in painting, sculpture and photography. The themes of his large scale architectural photographs are Bauhaus and fascist aesthetics, while his monochrome wall paintings and lead paintings are reflections on art. Between 1973 (Förg's first year as a student at The Academy of Fine Art Munich) and 1976, Förg painted almost exclusively black monochrome canvas pictures in acrylic, which, with the addition of a translucent grey, produced a milky, veiled surface effect. After the death of his artistic colleague, Blinky Palermo, Förg pursued the latter's European legacy of American Minimal Art from 1977. His paintings in abstract styles recall Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly and others. In the early 1980s, Förg made his so-called Alubilder - assemblages of aluminium sheeting onto which the artist had painted linear patterns or portrait photographs.

For his series of paintings on lead, dating from the 1980s and 1990s, he wrapped lead sheets over wood, then painted each surface with acrylic. Förg started using photography in his work at the beginning of the 1980s. For this purpose he travelled extensively to Spain, Israel, Austria, Russia, France, Turkey and Italy where he primarily photographed Bauhaus buildings. Förg's photographic research using a 35 mm camera and zoom lenses presents the uncompromisingly modern architecture in an unembellished way, sometimes dilapidated, often featuring careless renovations or additions.

His photographs of buildings with cultural and political significance - Bauhaus structures in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, for example, or Fascist ones in Italy - were taken from unusual, sharp-angled perspectives, with off-center framing and often in grainy focus, suggestive of painting. Many of the photographs are views taken through windows that draw attention to transitions from interior to exterior space.

The photographs are presented under thick protective glass reflecting the room and the viewer. In 1988, as part of the Sculpture in the City exhibition, Förg installed two-metre-long walls of mirrors in a Rotterdam tube station; they were demolished in 1999. Beginning in 1992, paintings and works on paper, known and documented in literature as "Gitterbilder" (grid paintings), appear in Förg's work.

The roots for these pieces, however, are to be found in an earlier series, the so-called "Fenster-Aquarelle" (window watercolors): the crossbar forms a grid for the space in the image, which provides the frame for a whole flow of paintings without limiting their free display and development. In 1991 for the opening of Frankfurt's Museum für Moderne Kunst, Förg produced a colorful wall piece for the central stairway, which together with a bronze relief formed a contrast to the architectural structure of the post-modern museum architecture. In 2000, he was commissioned with designs for Swiss Re's Centre for Global Dialogue in Zurich. For this project Forg handled the color design for all of the interiors in the 1920s Villa Bodmer and installed two enormous tubes of raw metal in its central entrance hall.

He died, aged 61, in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He suffered with a stroke a a short number of years before, and was frustrated he. Would be possible but sadly this proved extremely difficult. Please look at my other items including rare modern and contemporary art and design pieces.

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Artist: Günther Förg
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Offset Lithograph
Features: Framed, Signed
Year of Production: 2004