Günther Förg "Rivoli", 1989

In 1989 Günter Förg created "Rivoli" for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Castello di Rivoli near Turin. It is to this exhibition that the title of the present work alludes. It belongs to a series of rectangular, portrait formats, which divide and accentuate the architecture of the exhibition space. Each panel is split-up into strips of different widths and alternating colour shades, creating a double rhythm that transforms the entire surroundings. Here, Förg intends to challenge an increased awareness for - as well as the relationship between - space and surface planes. Each picture in itself asks the viewer to question the spatial situation it is set in. The painterly surface is deliberately left visible and emphasizes the dynamic brushstroke instead of reducing the work to a mere geometric composition. The colour-field in “Rivoli" is exactly divided in half and painted in blue and yellow, two of the three primary colours. Again, the compositional rigor contrasts with the painterly surface, so that the dynamic and the statics of an entire group is perfectly reproduced in this single work.
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