Tate Modern curator selects five of Anni Albers' radical weaving designs
Tate Modern's retrospective of weaver and Bauhaus teacher Anni Albers celebrates the broad range of her work. Curator Briony Fer picks five exhibits that best demonstrate her radical methods.
It is widely acknowledged that Albers transformed the way that the craft of weaving was viewed, by looking forward in her unusual techniques and modern teaching methods, and back to its ancient roots on her trips to Latin America.
The exhibition demonstrates the wide range of materials she used, such as cellophane in a sound-proofing wall-covering, and her embrace of both industrial manufacture and weaving on the hand-loom.
Curated by Fer and Ann Coxon, Anni Albers runs until 27 January 2019 at Tate Modern. The show coincides with 100 years since the foundation of the Bauhaus school, where she studied and taught. To mark the centenary of the school's founding, we've created a series of articles exploring the school's key figures and projects. Here, Fer explains five of the most innovative works from the exhibition:
Image courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London
Design for a Wall Hanging, 1926
Albers became a student at the Bauhaus in 1922 and produced many designs that show her exploring multiple permutations of the grid. Design for a Wall Hanging is one of her gouaches for a jacquard wall-hanging, but she would make similar drawings for tablecloths.
Throughout her life she worked making one-off pieces and functional t...
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