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Günther Förg, A Game of ChessAlmine Rech Paris - Turenne
March 05 — April 10, 2021
Opening on Friday, March 5th, 2021
from 10 am to 6 pm
Almine Rech is pleased to present 'A Game of Chess', Günther Förg's third solo exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with the Estate of the artist, following on the shows the gallery organized in London in 2015 and 2018.
Förg was born in the Allgäu region and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, and his ideas have continued to migrate through various media. In 1984, Förg began to achieve recognition when his work was shown in Düsseldorf as part of “von hier aus”, an exhibition of new German painting curated by Kasper König. Since then, he has been associated with two trajectories in postwar art. The history of his reception within the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam illustrates the duality of his protean artistic practice. In 1995, the Stedelijk, which at the time was led by Rudi Fuchs, presented Förg as the successor to the Germanic painters grouped together as the “Neo-Expressionists”: Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, and A.R. Penck. “A New Spirit in Painting” (1981) showed that these artists tried in fact to root themselves in the culture of their origins and in artistic tradition. More recently — as seen in the retrospective held three years ago by the Stedelijk and the Dallas Museum of Art — Förg was portrayed as an artist concerned with the interpretation and exploration of modernism (both of these having been initiated, in Germany, by Blinky Palermo) in a European and continental perspective. The current exhibition at Almine Rech shows, however, that Förg’s strength lies rather in his ability to create artworks that resist any kind of determinism, and are thereby not at all programmatic, meaning that they do not participate in constructing a certain discourse on art. Förg expressed, basically, a fragile beauty, working on the border of “Neo-Expressionism” and modernism.
64 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris FR
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Almine Rech, 64, rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris, France, Paris