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Almine Rech

Günther Förg Le moderne

Oct 15 — Dec 14, 2024 | Fondation Le Corbusier - Maison La Roche

In collaboration with Fondation Le Corbusier

Opening on Tuesday, October 15, from 3 to 8 pm

Almine Rech and Fondation Le Corbusier are pleased to present Le moderne, Günther Förg's solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from October 15 to December 14, 2024.

Gunther Förg always expressed a complicated and profound relationship to architecture through his work, exploring the connections between abstraction, space, and architecture.

He drew on the formal vocabulary of modernism, both in painting and architecture. His abstract, often monochromatic works were sometimes structured by geometrical lines and blocks of color recalling the principles of order and simplicity associated with architectural movements such as Bauhaus or International Style.

As such, there could be no better setting to show his work than Maison La Roche, designed and built in the early 1920s by Le Corbusier. The house is named after its patron and owner, Raoul La Roche, a banker and collector of cubist and modern art. His collection, most of which was selected by Le Corbusier and the painter Amédée Ozenfant, included paintings by artists such as Juan Gris, Picasso, and Fernand Léger.

The connection between Gunther Förg’s paintings and Le Corbusier’s architectural polychromy lies most of all in their shared approach to color, their use of monochrome, and their way of using color to structure the space and interact with the architecture.

— Extract from press release written by Nicolas Trembley, art critic & curator

Fondation Le Corbusier
Maison La Roche
10 square du Docteur Blanche
75016 Paris
, France

Métro ligne 9 – Arrêt Jasmin
Bus 52 – Arrêt Mozart – La Fontaine
Bus PC – Arrêt Suchet – Raffet

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Selected artworks

  • Günther Förg,                                      Cité Radieuse, 1986

    Günther Förg Cité Radieuse, 1986

    Photographie en couleur
    180 x 120 cm
    71 x 47 in

  • Günther Förg,                                      Untitled,  1994

    Günther Förg Untitled, 1994

    Acrylic on canvas
    221 x 151 cm
    87 x 59 1/2 in
    Provenance: Estate of the Artist

  • Günther Förg,                                      Untitled, 1998

    Günther Förg Untitled, 1998

    Acrylic on canvas
    350 x 60 cm
    138 x 23 1/2 in

  • Günther Förg,                                      Bauhaus, 1991

    Günther Förg Bauhaus, 1991

    Black/white photograph, in artist's frame
    270 x 120 cm
    106 1/2 x 47 in

  • Günther Förg,                                      Bauhaus, 1991

    Günther Förg Bauhaus, 1991

    Black/white photograph, in artist's frame
    270 x 120 cm
    106 1/2 x 47 in