Aller Retour. 2008.
Color Pastel on paper.
Signed and dated in upper right. Lower left inscribed "85". 71 x 53 cm (27.9 x 20.8 in), size of sheet. [JS].

• Förg's work is a devotion to the inherent value of color, the ceaseless attempt to work out its own life and its almost infinite wealth of variation through ever new combinations.
• Förg brings together the apparently incompatible: elements of concrete art with gestural elements, geometrical rigor meets expressive spontaneity, a calculated system meets the spontaneous intuition of the application of paint.
• In the luminous watercolors from the work group "Aller Retour", Förg pushes the principle of the spontaneous choice of color and the pure style to extremes.
• In 2014, the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, presented a first posthumous overview of the artist's work, followed by the retrospective "Günther Förg. A Fragile Beauty" at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Dallas Museum of Art in 2018.
• Förg's works are in numerous important international collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Städel Frankfurt a. Main, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.

The work is registered in the Günther Förg Estate with the number WVF.08.P.0225.

LITERATURE: Günther Förg. Aller Retour, Cologne 2009, p. 141 (with illu. on p. 103).