Anni Albers
Drawing from a notebook
Drawing from a notebook
not dated
pencil on paper
25,4 × 20 cm
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, USA
pencil on paper
25,4 × 20 cm
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, USA
Anni Albers
Notebook 1970-1980
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Anni Albers
Typewriter drawing
not dated
Anni Albers
Letter
1980
colour silkscreen
25,5 x 25,5 cm
Thinking and the process of making are deeply connected in Anni Albers work through a profound understanding of materials and techniques. Drawing was vital in her work but was never performed as preliminary sketches for weaving. Through drawing ideas are born. Inception equals promise, it is a territory full of vital potential that fuels the process of becoming [something else]. Like early mornings in the studio. Beginnings signify tentative arrangements, explorative boundaries, open developments, connecting possibilities.
The connection for me, as an artist, is foremost with Anni’s drawings, with the trajectory of the delicate lines and shapes quavering and pondering across the surface, surging through the artist’s rules and process of control in order to find ultimate harmony and balance. The image, the composition, the whole, an optical, unique and timeless universe, a collection of primary marks, dots and lines, is repeatedly more than its constituent parts. Yet, each fragment retains its own identity, is vibrant and alive. Visually striking, the intricate and exquisite patterns in Anni’s work are idiosyncratic.
The intergenerational relationship between her visual language and mine, especially in the use of lines, points and grids was reaffirmed when I saw her inspirational drawings in the flesh in the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut. It was a privilege to have been given access to the archive of Anni’s drawings in 2010 while working there as an artist in residence. From time to time, on and off but always on cue, Anni Albers’ work endures, she is one of those artists that keep on nurturing me in the studio.
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collage on paper
57 x 76,5 cm
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10 x 15 cm
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polymer gouache on archer paper
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