Tag: Anni Albers
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Anni Albers: A Life – book review
This intimate biography draws on the author’s friendship with Anni and her husband, Josef Albers, and is a wonderful addition to the legacy of her life and work
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Melania Toma – interview
Toma explains her interest in collective and interspecies perspectives, her dynamic process, and her quest to unearth the stories hidden in organic and industrial fabrics
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Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez and their Students – book review
This book shows how Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez, teaching at a small arts college for just a few years in the early 20th century, had a lasting effect on the theory and practice of the craft
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Coral Woodbury – interview: “The work I’m doing is approaching death, making peace with death’
Woodbury talks about her solo show at HackelBury Fine Art and what led her to use old books to redraw the history of art and make the invisible visible
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Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus
One hundred years since the founding of the Bauhaus school, this exhibition considers how it influenced the UK’s cultural scene, from film to music and performance art to hairstyles
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Lothar Götz – interview: ‘In Britain, people think abstraction is just beautiful, but for me it also has a political aspect’
Artist Lothar Götz talks about designing a monumental mural for Towner Art Gallery, the politics of the Bauhaus and why he rejected figurative art
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Brent Wadden: ‘I love a good happy accident. The mistakes end up being integral to each piece’
The artist talks about Sympathetic Resonance, his new show at Pace, why he refers to his weaving as painting, and trawling websites daily in search of secondhand yarn
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Leonor Antunes: ‘I’m interested in ancient ways of doing things’
The sculptor talks about learning traditional crafts, the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion, creating an exhibition for Mexico, and how her work resembles choreography
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Anni Albers: Touching Vision
Remaining committed to the Bauhaus ideals of uniting art and design as one field of form-production, Anni Albers’s pictorial weavings and later graphic prints promoted the egalitarian dissemination of artistic forms and prototypes
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Abstract Drawing
The Drawing Room Tannery Arts, London 20 February – 19 April 2014
