With these exhibitions, Günther Förg showed a transformation in the working of his painted surfaces, which have often allowed the viewer to glimpse the contradiction between the transparency and the opacity of matter. This relationship is what makes his architectural subjects so fascinating. Both the large-format photographs of façades and the vertiginous interiors of stairways and environments exhibit this same link between transparent and opaque structures. It is as if the exterior of the façades kept a magmatic interior at bay, and as though the support or skeleton of the image were presenting