Günther Förg: Echoes

This upcoming exhibition is titled Echoes

Günther Förg usually had a precise idea in mind before beginning a series of paintings, yet he never made sketches. When his paintings were sent out for exhibitions, he sometimes produced small replicas, loose canvases in frames or wooden panels mounted on a second panel, in order to preserve their presence in his studio like an echo.
He did this systematically between 2002 and 2007, building up a miniature collection of his most recent paintings in his studio, and hanging them close together, like butterflies in a naturalist’s box.

image: Günther Förg, Untitled, 2002, acrylic on loose canvas mounted in a naturalist’s box, 35 x 31 cm.