Raimund Girke, Special Showcase

Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to launch the book: Raimund Girke: Between White in Asia. A special presentation that features major works by the artist in a span of 40 years of his career will be on view concurrently on 22/F of the gallery.

The new publication and exhibition traces the German artist’s rhythmic approach to painting and boundless explorations of the colour white. In particular, Girke was deeply interested in Eastern philosophies, and the Asian use of the same character for "writing" and "drawing".

Born in 1930 and living and working in Cologne and Berlin until his death in 2002, Raimund Girke was a decisive pioneer of analytical painting and counts amongst the most important positions of German painting after 1945. In the course of his artistic development, Girke repeatedly turned against prevailing trends and consistently found ways to reduce, concentrate, and evolve his pictorial language. The predominance of the colour white represents the essential constant in Girke’s work through various phases of his career.