Modern Couples Barbican Catalogue

Modern Couples Barbican Catalogue

Modern Couples have exciting discoveries: an artist's fashion sculptures by German artists Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt. . Rare is a painting room for the artist Kandinsky and his mistress and artists from fellow Mediterranean artists to the extent that they could not usually meet them, but they were literally painted at a home party.

Anni and Josef Albers, a weaver and painter at Bauhaus, are a surprise omission of this show, due to their large and reciprocal experiences. But Tate Modern gives Annie Albers (1899-1994) the retrograde effect he always deserves. This is a fascinating exhibition, from the first black and white stripping, silky deformation and weft changes its brilliant color in the competing squares, to its last room full of sparkling fabrics of three and four colors where the eye barely sees. How wool makes his amazing journeys up, between, down and around the vertical warp.

Albers is a revolutionary hand loom, using this mechanical device, simple and old, to create the latest technology. He worked with jute, tissue paper and cellophane to create sparkling silver fields. With cellophane and cotton to weave golden fabrics. Thin cotton and dense raffia, white and green, refer to snow-covered pastures. In a remarkable work, the size of a billboard, it magically implies the death of a red light that spreads a landscape of black trees at sunset. This is difficult enough to achieve with paint, regardless of the geometry of woven wool.