Günther Förg. Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper / Oeuvres sûr Papier: 1975 – 2009

A survey exhibition of post-war German artist Günther Förg’s works on paper, spanning over 30 years, opens in Zurich this September. Executed in a variety of materials from charcoal and oil to ink, Förg’s works on paper position him as a daring conceptualist who both incorporated and critiqued tropes of the sprawling movement known as modernism, while celebrating his distinctively sensuous approach to gestural abstraction. Förg’s prolific body of work ranges from painting and drawing to sculpture and photography, sidestepping easy categorization by candidly appropriating and re-imagining canonical art historical references.