Günther Förg
Subtitle: a fragile beauty
By: with contributions by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Delahunty, Lisa Le Feuvre, Liam Gillick, Megan R. Luke, Lauren Richman, Beatrix Ruf, Jeffrey Saletnik, Matthew S. Witkovsky
Contributors: Artega, Agustin, writer of foreword; Sieburgh, Jan Willem, 1950- writer of foreword; Bell, Kirsty, author; Delahunty, Gavin, author; Le Feuvre, Lisa, author; Gillick, Liam, 1964- author; Luke, Megan R., 1977- author; Richman, Lauren, author; Ruf, Beatrix, author; Saletnik, Jeffrey, author; Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- author; Fox, Martin, 1974- editor; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum; Dallas Museum of Art
Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780300229226
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; German Painting; Abstract Art; Criticism and interpretation; Themes, motives; Artistic Photography; German Sculpture
Other titles: Fragile beauty
Description: Gunther Förg (1952-2013) was a German painter, sculptor, and photographer with an irreverent approach to abstraction. Förg's project tackled the latent instability between image and reality. His painterly surfaces may appear exquisitely sensitive, his installations elegantly precise, but these are mastered and executed with a cold detachment. His deft manipulations of the languages of abstraction obscured a darker message. This publication, the most comprehensive to date, offers an important new understanding of this extraordinary and complex artist. Three years in the making, it reinterprets Förg's oeuvre to reveal an artistic project that raises important questions about the traditional role of an object as a conveyor of fixed meaning. The book's subtitle--"A Fragile Beauty"--is an indication of how Förg successfully manipulated what is behind and beyond an object's appearance.
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018, and Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (page 244).

" Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty" : May 26-October 14, 2018, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands.

" Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty" : October 21, 2018-January 27, 2019, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Text in English.

Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018.

Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.
Table of contents: title: Förg in the Stedelijk  -- Beatrix Ruf; title: Günther Förg : Apparitions of modernism  -- Gavin Delahunty; title: Hall of mirrors  -- Megan R. Luke; title: "I am not a sculptor" : This unsatisfactory sculpture of Günther Förg  -- Lisa le Feuvre; title: A classicist at heart : Günther Förg and the modernist tradition  -- Jeffrey Saletnik; title: Elusive rationality  -- Liam Gillick and Matthew S. Witkovsky in conversation, with reflections from the interviews of Günther Förg; title: Günther Förg and the edges of the visual field -- Kirsty Bell-- Chronology /-- Lauren Richman.