As the world descends to Paris for Art Basel, galleries and museums prepare to open the best exhibitions. Paris is having a moment following the successful Olympic Games hosted this summer.

Almine Rech Paris and Fondation Le Corbusier will present Le moderne, Günther Förg’s solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from October 15 to December 14, 2024 and this promises to be a fantastic show.

Gunther Förg always expressed a deep relationship to architecture through his work, exploring the connections between abstraction, space, and architecture. During his studies, Förg developed a practice grounded almost exclusively in grey and black monochrome. 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.

The connection between Gunther Förg’s paintings and Le Corbusier’s architectural polychromy lies most of all in their shared approach to color, their use of monochrome, and their way of using colour to structure the space and interact with the architecture.

This exhibition will exemplify the synergies between both artists and envisage how they both approach modernity, monochromatic palettes and deconstruction through lines and gesture. This is the first time that Günther Förg’s work has been shown in a domestic space. Don’t miss it if you’re in Paris for the fair.