DAP - Josef Albers in Mexico

By Lauren Hinkson. Text by Joaquin Barr endos.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Josef Albers in Mexico.'

Albers in "the promised land of abstract art": the little-known influence of Mexico

“Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers ' abstract works on canvas and paper. With his wife, the artist Anni Albers, Albers toured pre-Columbian archeological sites and monuments during his 12 or more trips to Mexico and other Latin American countries between 1935 and 1968. On each visit, Albers took black-and-white photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries and landscapes, which he later assembled into rarely seen photo collages. The resulting works demonstrate Albers ' continued formal experimentation with geometry, this time accentuating a pre-Columbian aesthetic.

Josef Albers in Mexico brings together photographs, photo collages, prints and significant paintings from the Variants/Adobe (1946 –66) and Homage to the Square (1950 –76) series from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation. Two scholarly essays, an illustrated map and vivid color reproductions of paintings and works on paper illuminate this little-known period in the influential artist' practice.

Lauren Hinkson is Associate Curator of Collections at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Joaqu n Barr endos is a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

BOOK FORMAT

Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 110 color.

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