Tag: Josef Albers

  • 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

  • Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere

    Asawa, who was known for weaving sculptures with wire and studying at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller, is featured in this first UK solo show

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms

    The exhibition gives an insight into the development of modernism in Brazil, a country to which it was an extraneous mode of aesthetic language, developed under the influence of a somewhat slowly spreading wave of international modernism

  • Tuneu: Hexacordo

    This solo exhibition, which celebrates Tuneu’s 50 years as an artist, brings together his most recent work, with 23 new paintings as well as sculptures, all of which play with the possibilities of the hexagon

  • Colour is

    This group exhibition, including work by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Anthony Caro and Hélio Oiticica, provides an interesting survey of 1960s abstract art and its legacies, and suggests a few intriguing connections

  • Sheila Hicks – interview: I’ve enjoyed a whole career of being an outsider

    The American-born artist Sheila Hicks invited us to join her on her brightly coloured pigmented bales in her site-specific installation at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, where she asked us if we knew the difference between a carrot and a…

  • Bauhaus: Art as Life

    Barbican Art Gallery, London 3 May–12 August 2012