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Anni and Josef Albers: Latin American Journeys
Anni and Josef Albers: Latin American Journeys is the first exhibition
devoted exclusively to showing the work of these two important and
influential artists of twentieth century modernism in its relationship
to the arts and artists of Latin America and Mexico and making visible
how the experience of this region inspired their work.
Anni and Josef Albers made more than fourteen journeys to Latin America
between 1934 and 1967, visiting Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Chile, and
frequently living and working there for many months. They came to
appreciate and value highly the culture of these countries, their
landscapes, their people, and their artÑfrom the art and architecture of
pre-Hispanic cultures and the simplest examples of folk art, to the art,
design and architecture of such well-known Latin American modernists as
Diego Rivera, Carlos Merida, Jean Charlot, Clara Porset, Luis Barragan,
Ricardo Legorreta.
The exhibition includes a large selection of the over 400 rarely or
never exhibited photographs and photo-collages in which Josef Albers
documented these travels; weavings, drawings, painted studies and
jewelry by Anni Albers that demonstrate her lifelong preoccupation with
the structure, patterns, colors, and meanings of Andean textiles; and
seldom seen paintings from the 1930s and 1940s by Josef Albers which
show the creator of the famous Homage to the Square series freely
exploring color and line in an energized experimental way.
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Installation at Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba
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Installation at Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
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Installation at Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima
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Installation at Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
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Installation at Reina Sofia Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid
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