Josef Albers
Pictures and interaction of colour
13 March - 19 April 1970
“Alberts reduces his forms to square and rectangle. Where deviations from this strict regularity occur, they are nevertheless firmly arranged in the basic constants of the vertical and horizontal given by the edges of the picture. The square series get their real life from the confusingly beautiful colour triads or diphthongs that give expression to the supreme Bauhaus principle - clarity.”
(Münchner Leben, April 1970)
“In Munich, Reiner Kallhardt, the new director of the Kunstverein, has gone a step further by creating - true to Albers' conviction that practice precedes theory - a field of experimentation for the visitors in which they can playfully test the interactions of the colours themselves by superimposing translucent colour foils, joining coloured squares to form rows and compositions, walking in coloured capes in front of large coloured squares and discovering that one and the same colour becomes something completely different in changing surroundings: Slide series provide the opportunity to test and train colour memory.”
(Nürnberger Nachrichten, March 1970)
Fig:
[1] Exhibition poster, Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V.
[2] Installation view: Josef Albers
Pictures and interaction of color, Kunstverein München, 1970. Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V.