Alubilder is a series of work for which he had painted portrait photographs and linear patters on to sheets of aluminium; Förg also created a series of Lead Paintings - for this work, he wrapped lead sheets around wood and painted each individual surface with acrylic.
« I think painting is a resilient practice; if you look through the history of painting it doesn’t change so much and we always see it in the present.
It is still now. »
Günther Förg
Förg also received acclaim for his photography – between 1980 and 2006, he traveled the world and captured various architectural sites which were then printed on a large scale; the sites were often politically symbolical –
Bauhaus structures in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv a
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Alubilder is a series of work for which he had painted portrait photographs and linear patters on to sheets of aluminium; Förg also created a series of Lead Paintings - for this work, he wrapped lead sheets around wood and painted each individual surface with acrylic.
« I think painting is a resilient practice; if you look through the history of painting it doesn’t change so much and we always see it in the present.
It is still now. »
Günther Förg
Förg also received acclaim for his photography – between 1980 and 2006, he traveled the world and captured various architectural sites which were then printed on a large scale; the sites were often politically symbolical –
Bauhaus structures in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are just a few among the many sites he photographed.
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