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Günther Förg’s Stele (Tunika), from 2007, encapsulates the artist’s large-scale bronze sculptures, which emanate with a sense of stoic calmness and solidity. Within such works, Förg recorded the sensual and immediate pleasures of encounters with the surface, suggesting a tactile and haptic perception. The second part of the title translates to ‘Tunic’, and indeed the surface of the present work seems to emulate the folds of draped fabric, creating an intricate play with light and shadow.

On this impression of expressive movement, Catherine Quéloz writes: ‘In Förg’s [bronzes] (which bear the rough, uncontrolled trace of his hands and fingers: scratches, gashes) [...] gesture can never be understood as the desire to affirm the uniqueness of craft in opposition to mechanical modes of production. [...The] artist’s intervention is not direct, having been realized in the negative plaster, then molded.’