Günther Förg (b. 1952)

'Förg's artistic concept is marked by velocity and dexterity and an unambiguous approach. He works in series and sequences of pictures. Since his early orientation with Twombly and Palermo during his studies at Munich Academy, he has progressively expanded his artistic area of expertise. Förg does not invoke, but uses his work more as a reminiscence, a memory of modernity, whose artefacts flow out of stream of forgetfulness wrung from his raw and open work process, and through it's stubborn Anti-Formalism, allows the view a participating and unexploited gaze. (E. Schneider, quoted in, Förg, exh. cat., Cologne, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001, n.p.).