Günther Förg

Photography

Since 1982 Günther Förg has devoted himself to large format photography alongside the paintings he is best known for. The Kunsthalle Bremen recently compiled Förg’s extensive photographic oeuvre for exhibition and the publication of this impressive catalog. In total, this presentation creates a eloquent picture of an important aspect of the artist’s career. Sequenced by Förg himself, the catalogue reads as an artist’s book, and an enticing engagement with photographic representation. The photographs capture a range of modern and classic European architecture from across the continent. The buildings Förg seeks are not without purpose, they are symbols of political engagement and remnants of a past lost. Förg captures the monumentality of these buildings, communicating this architecture as it seeps with a feeling of failed modernist utopia.

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