Purple Art

[11/10/2017]

“Josef Albers in Mexico” exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Josef Albers is best remembered as an abstract painter, theorist and meticulous scholar of the colour spectrum. But the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition of Josef Albers in Mexico hammers it home that beyond Bauhaus-meets-Constructivism there was an ancient Mesoamerican influence shaping his creative agenda. Between 1935 and 1967 Albers and his wife Annie visited Latin America more […]

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Text Kinga Rajzak and photo Alexis Dahan

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