Günther Förg - Passage

The newest release from the post-war German minimalist painter Günther Förg is based on a body of work originated from partially sullied sheets of paper that had been previously used as underlay for the production of other watercolors. Such literal working papers now form the basis for a wide range of paintings from cheery fields of paint blots to an intensive encounter between different principles of form. It is evident that the quasi self-originating beginnings of this new pictorial language also deals with the phenomenon of horror vacui, which on one hand equivocally demands that the emptiness the pure white of the canvas should be done away with and yet in so doing, simultaneously induces a high degree of anxiety, rendering any composition a sheer impossibility. Including an essay by Max Wechsler, this volume is a greatly anticipated release from one of Germany s contemporary masters.