Fondation Le Corbusier and Almine Rech are pleased to present Le moderne, Günther Förg’s solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from October 16 to December 14, 2024.

Günther Förg always expressed a complicated and profound relationship to architecture through his work, exploring the connections between abstraction, space, and architecture.

He drew on the formal vocabulary of modernism, both in painting and architecture. His abstract, often monochromatic works were sometimes structured by geometrical lines and blocks of color recalling the principles of order and simplicity associated with architectural movements such as Bauhaus or International Style.

As such, there could be no better setting to show his work than Maison La Roche, designed and built in the early 1920s by Le Corbusier. The house is named after its patron and owner, Raoul La Roche, a banker and collector of cubist and modern art. His collection, most of which was selected by Le Corbusier and the painter Amédée Ozenfant, included paintings by artists such as Juan Gris, Picasso, and Fernand Léger.