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Catalog note / 解説

Josef Albers became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century avant-garde, with his systematic presentation of spatial ambivalence and paradox, made through endless variations on geometric themes and juxtapositions of colour in the format of rectangle and square. He is best known by these later works, but even his earliest productions suggest his future interests. During the 1920s and very early 1930s he was teaching at the Bauhaus and working with glass, furniture and typography, but in 1933 when the Bauhaus closed, he emigrated to the USA. He began making woodcuts and lino-cuts again. These prints are characterised by a mix of straight and parallel lines, large planes of bla…