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Three years ago in December as Günther Förg's 50th birthday was being organized, his friends decided to publish a book with Reiner Speck as instigating editor - a book which, with the inclusion of 50 of his watercolours, has now metamorphosed into an artist's edition.\nBe it empathetically in the way Rudi Fuchs charts a watercolour, or with colossal art historical staying power that Siegfried Gohr takes on an window motif, or in the cheerful underground manner that Rudolf Schmitz recites a poem, or be it at breakneck narrative speed that Johannes Gachnang leans out of the window on a warm Milanese evening - at all times, these approaches evince a profound friendship based upon both prodigious and incisive knowledge.\nThe watercolours are almost cheerful, the first indications in Förg's ouvre perhaps that - now in his middle years - he has indeed found an accommodation between Eros and Thanatos when occasionally dressing and undressing women as they sleep, bathe or pose with delicately wafted spots of colour.\nEdited by Reiner Speck mit Texten von | with contributions (German) from Jean Frémon, Rudi Fuchs, Johannes Gachnang, Siegfried Gohr, Kay Heymer, Veit Loers, Ingrid Rein, Rudolf Schmitz, Reiner Speck, Heliod Spiekermann