Grid and Gesture - Günther Förg | Karel Appel
Galerie Leu•Sep 10, 2026 — Oct 08, 2026
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We are pleased to announce Grid and Gesture, an exhibition bringing together Günther Förg’s iconic Gitterbilder into dialogue with Karel Appel’s later Out of Nature paintings, exploring the shifting boundaries between structure and gesture.
Two seemingly opposed visual languages occupy this space: the grid and the gesture.
Günther Förg's grid paintings (Gitterbilder), which emerged in the early 1990s have taken up one of the defining forms of modern abstraction—the grid, with its inheritance of Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus—and subjected it to a loose, drawn, and deliberately unruly hand. The lines do not seek to establish a perfect order. They drift, overlap, double back on themselves. Paint is applied with a palpable sense of immediacy. The loosened, almost calligraphic quality of Förg’s line has at times invited comparison with the gestural painting of Cy Twombly, suggesting how closely grid and gesture have been intertwined in his work from the outset. The grid…
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Grid and Gesture - Günther Förg | Karel Appel
Galerie Leu•Sep 10, 2026 — Oct 08, 2026
Press Release
We are pleased to announce Grid and Gesture, an exhibition bringing together Günther Förg’s iconic Gitterbilder into dialogue with Karel Appel’s later Out of Nature paintings, exploring the shifting boundaries between structure and gesture.
Two seemingly opposed visual languages occupy this space: the grid and the gesture.
Günther Förg's grid paintings (Gitterbilder), which emerged in the early 1990s have taken up one of the defining forms of modern abstraction—the grid, with its inheritance of Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus—and subjected it to a loose, drawn, and deliberately unruly hand. The lines do not seek to establish a perfect order. They drift, overlap, double back on themselves. Paint is applied with a palpable sense of immediacy. The loosened, almost calligraphic quality of Förg’s line has at times invited comparison with the gestural painting of Cy Twombly, suggesting how closely grid and gesture have been intertwined in his work from the outset. The grid…
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