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Casa Luis Barragán
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The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Slipcase hardcover
52 Pages
21 Photographs
23 x 23 cm
Ámbar Diseño
Spanish edition
ISBN :
En trámite pending
2009
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Josef Albers (1888–1976) was one of the most influential creators given to the world by the Bauhaus school. In November 1933, when the school closed under pressure from the Nazis, Albers moved to the United States.
Following a transitional stage, he began a process of experimentation on the optical effects of color that would culminate in his best-known series of paintings: Homage to the Square. In this series he used the calculus of ever lesser forms to illustrate his theory that changes in place, shape, and light produce changes in color.
This impeccable edition allows us to decipher the interest Albers always showed in the ambiguity of perception: the discrepancy between visual information received by the retina and what the mind perceives. It is clear that this identity does not reside in color itself but in its relationship with its surroundings.
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