Rainer Fetting
Großer Wald
1988
Oil and sand on canvas, 3-part work. 300 x 600 cm. Signed, dated and titled 'Fetting '88 Großer Wald' verso on canvas of left panel. All panels numbered in series in roman numerals and with measurements verso on canvas. - Minor traces of age.
The work can be viewed in Berlin.
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In 1987, Fetting created a series of large-scale forest paintings, which have a spooky, surreal character due to the powerful coloured light. All of Fetting’s paintings are an expression of a certain colour constellation. In this painting, it appears at the same time heavily overcast and glowing intensely. ‘The forest paintings are from Germany when I was at the Grunewald. [...] It has to do with Germany, with German history, with the “German forest” from fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, which I read a lot as a child. [...] For me, it was always a counterbalance to these cityscapes. If you’ve seen too much of the city, then your soul simply needs nature too, it needs to recharge its batteries.’ (Rainer Fetting, Ich lasse mich emotional packen von dem was ich in der Realität vorfinde, Rainer Fetting im Gespräch mit Achim Sommer, in: Rainer Fetting, Landschaften, Bonn, 2001, p.17).
Provenance
Raab Galerie, Berlin; private collection, Germany
Exhibitions
Berlin 1990 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/DDR, Nationalgalerie), Weimar (Stadtmuseum), Rainer Fetting, Berlin/New York, Gemälde und Skulpturen, exhib.cat.no. 24, p.56 with col.ill. (here dated 1987 and with different dimensions);
Berlin/London 1988 (Raab Gallery), Rainer Fetting, Portraits, Stadtlandschaften, Wald, Skulpturen, n.p. with col.ill. 57 (here dated 1987).