Description: Oversize beautiful book. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fully illustrated in color. Forg paints on the pink sheets of Gazzetta Dello Sport, an Italian soccer newspaper. Rare copy. Limited edition book, only 700 copies were printed by Snoeck Verlag. Barbel Grasslin (Editor). "Gunther Forg: “Gazzetta dello sport.” Cologne: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006. 3936859434 54 pages. Large-format oblong volume, measuring approximately 12.25” x 11.5”, is bound in gray cloth, with stamped green lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Text is bilingual in German and English. "For the »cultivated« and yet »fanatical« football fan in Italy, the proof of God’s existence was finally clinched some twenty-five years ago via the sports paper »Gazzetta dello Sport«, a journal which has appeared daily on pink newsprint for the last 120 years: »Maradonna = God« ran the headline, as Argentina vanquished West Germany to become World Champions. Such snapshots could have been the inspiration for Günther Förg 2006 to work with what is essentially the extremely basic material of the pink newsprint. Comprising four large format pieces (2100 cm x 3000 cm), six medium-sized pieces (1000 cm x 1500 cm), as well as 64 small pieces (each 53 cm x 76 cm) in acrylic and devised as a complete series, the works overlay the newspaper columns in free form. Fence motifs consolidate the layering of the pink original, and in this way Günther Förg intensifies one of his fantastical pictorial motifs in an altogether new way." (Publisher's summary)
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Publication Year: 2006
Format: Hardcover
Language: English, German
Book Title: Gazzetta Dello Sport
Author: Valentina Avon
Publisher: Snoeck
Topic: Contemporary Art
