Günther Förg: Works from the Friedrichs Collection

This book engages with the complete scope of Günther Förg’s oeuvre, driven by the passion of the collectors Brunhilde and Günther Friedrichs. The main focus is on Förg’s abstract paintings, which interrogate modernist art in loosely executed colorfields and patterns. With the rough surfaces of his masks, stelae and reliefs, Förg extends painting into the exhibition space, and with his wall paintings he turns that space itself into a work of art. In his photographs, he captures modernist architecture with the vibrancy of a snapshot, and in his exhibitions, he opens up a dialog between all these elements.