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Anni Albers, Six Prayers,
1966-1967
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Anni
Albers combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern
art.
A
long overdue recognition of Albers’s pivotal contribution to modern art and
design, this is the first major exhibition of her work in the UK.
As a female student at the radical Bauhaus art school, Albers was discouraged
from taking up certain classes. She enrolled in the weaving workshop and made
textiles her key form of expression. She inspired and was inspired by her
artist contemporaries, among them her teacher, Paul Klee, and her husband,
Josef Albers.
This
beautiful exhibition illuminates the artist’s creative process and her
engagement with art, architecture and design. You can discover why Albers has
been a profound influence on artists around the world via more than 350 objects
from exquisite small-scale ‘pictorial weavings’ to large wall-hangings and the
textiles she designed for mass production, as well as her later prints and
drawings.
At
the heart of the exhibition is an exploration of Albers’s seminal publication On Weaving 1965 and the wide
source material she gathered together to create the book.
Reviews:
Adrian Searle (The Guardian)Farah Neyeri (New York Times)
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Anni Albers, Study for an
unexecuted wall hanging, 1926
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Anni Albers, Wall Hanging,
1926
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Anni Albers, Ancient
Writing, 1936
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Anni Albers, Open Letter,
1958
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Anni Albers, Pasture,
1958
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Anni Albers, Intersecting,
1962,
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Anni Albers, Red Lines on Blue, 1979,
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Anni Albers in her weaving
studio at Black Mountain College, 1937
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