One of the earliest of
Albers architectural works was a wall he created for Harvard University's Harkness Commons Graduate Center.
Not exact matches
The slightly puzzling geometries of the
works grew out of two of the artist's earlier series, one influenced by Josef
Albers» «Homage to the Square» and the other a group of digitally rendered images of shadowy,
architectural spaces.
A tribute to the technical nature of
Albers» Bauhaus influence — in addition to Dávila's own
architectural background — the
work also comments on the hierarchical relationship between artist and artisan, canvas and craft, particularly considering the social and art historical importance of ceramic tile in Mexican culture.
(
Architectural Digest magazine revealed that teacher and pupil were reunited by the Obamas, in one of the dining rooms at the White House, where a 1998 Rauschenberg painting hangs adjacent to two
works by
Albers.)
David Leiber, a director at Zwirner who helped win the
Albers estate after a process akin to an
architectural competition, said this moment represented an opportunity to look back at Mr.
Albers's
work «and maybe try to understand why it's not where it should be in terms of critical reception or market reception.»
Borrowing its title from Anni
Albers's 1957 essay The Pliable Plane Antunes occupied the monumental exhibition space with a series of large scale
works, two sculptures inspired by Anni
Albers's fabric designs, others informed with Lina Bo Bardi's
architectural work.
Those distinct Modernist influences, her
work in her father's
architectural office, plus such artists as Howard Hodgkin, Paul Klee, Josef and Anni
Albers, Sophie Taeuber - Arp, Calder, Cy Twomby, and Brice Marden, and her former careers in textile design and illustration, all inform her
work.
I look to Hearne's
work for its
architectural solidity and its careful demarcation of color relationships coming out of his training at Yale under Sewell Sillman, a student of
Albers.
Within an
architectural environment designed by the architects» collective raumlaborberlin, the exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof is showing
works both by teachers at the college, such as Josef and Anni
Albers, Richard Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Shoji Hamada, Franz Kline, Xanti Schawinsky and Jack Tworkov, and by a number of Black Mountain students, including Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne and Cy Twombly.