Josef and Anni Albers
Subtitle: voyage inside a blind experience
Contributors: Albers, Anni; Complesso museale Santa Maria della Scala (Siena, Italy); Lewis Glucksman Gallery; Muzej suvremene umjetnosti (Zagreb, Croatia)
Publisher: Atlante; Magonza
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Città di Castello]; Arezzo
Language: ita; eng; hrv
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9788898756735
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art and vision disorders; Tactile art
Other titles: Voyage inside a blind experience
Description: Josef Albers always worked rationally with geometrical shapes and meticulously made tiny alterations in order to produce new sensations. Anni, from the early years in the textile workshop understands and explores the infinite chromatic and expressive possibility offered by tissue. She begins her experimentation testing new materials and transforming tissue in abstract art. Throw straight line, solid color, wires, traditional yarns she arrives to organic, geometric, circular and helicoidal shapes that will become recurrent elements of her art. Both abandoned figurative representation, choosing abstraction to express their own private reality that was in turn influenced by music and nature. This new experiential way of discovering the styles of the artists can therefore enrich the experience of all the visitors but above all help those who are visually impaired and often cannot enjoy art. The Alberses used to live art as experience: a sensation that hit all the senses stimulating their perception. According to this interpretation, sight is not only a not necessary element but even a barrier. The project is thought to make enjoyable this new interpretation of the art throw the senses for all the visitors that will visit the exhibition with a special focus on the experience of the visually impaired public.
Notes: Catalog of an itinerant exhibtion held at the Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy, April 6-July 4, 2018, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, August 3-November 4, 2018, at the Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia, January 10-April 21, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, Croatian, and Italian.