FGA#20 - THE SWISS ISSUE

Mienke Terpsma & Rob Hamelijnck

This latest issue of the ever-irreverent FGA (Fucking Good Art) is a field study on the ever-interesting intersection between art and money, focusing on Switzerland, the world’s banking capital. The Swiss Issue offers a critical analysis of a country that lies in the heart of Europe, but is still not part of the European Union. As always, FGA is a cornucopia of ideas and viewpoints: this issue includes conversations with artists, curators, economist-anthropologist Frank Hyde-Antwi, multi-millionaire Henry Levy and the graphic artist who designs Swiss money, Jorg Zintzmeyer. Also includes extensive illustrations and art contributions, and many texts by prominent thinkers and critics.

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GÜNTHER FÖRG

Back and Forth

This collection of more than 100 new abstract canvases, carefully reproduced in this book with its unusual format, is the result of one of the most intensive phases of work by master German painter Günther Förg in recent years. Förg places a sequence of calculated color fields into a basic grid, which changes from format to format, giving each individual painting its own tonal rhythm. Curator Rudi Fuchs observes in his excellent essay that these works bring to mind Mondrian’s seminal painting, Victory Boogie Woogie, hailing the “primordial energy” of Forg’s brushstrokes in service of his “vigorous abstraction.” Another important collection from this leader in German contemporary art.

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