Lot 639 D

Grid structures dominate. A brown, brown-yellow structure on a black ground and over that a fine grid of pink and pinky-white, laid like a build-up of glaze. Despite all the spatial rapprochement and repetition, Günther Förg creates open, and above that denser webs of layouts. He thus opens up a broad field for pictorial association in the piled and superimposed grids, a network of sketchy, loose horizontal and vertical brush strokes, comparable to rapid hatching, in order to capture an architectural situation such as a view of a vibrating cityscape with buildings and streets in the dark, occasionally illuminated by the lights of advertisements. This is in contrast to the artist's nervous, vague discourse. Förg may refer to leading representatives such as Piet Mondrian or other Dutch De Stijl artists, but here he does exactly the opposite: he sketches the exact, the absolute of geometric abstraction of modernity and cultivates the erratic and provisional. Förg is aware of the historic source from which he provocatively distances himself.