Falke Pisano, Object Construction 1: Reflective Abstraction (Mishima), 2007
Artist: Falke Pisano (born 1978 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: Installation of 13 copies of a novel by Yukio Mishima meant to resemble Josef Albers’s Structural Constellation: Transformation of a Scheme from 1950. “For her part, Pisano has gone so far as to collapse the relationship between text, reference, and work entirely, creating installations […]
Dorit Margreiter, Zentrum, 2004-ongoing
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Materials: Video transferred to 16mm film (black and white, silent), and three black and white Lambda prints; dimensions variable. Description: “In her distinctive practice, Margreiter examines how art, architecture, design, film, electronic media, and performance correspond and relate to each other. […]
David Diao, “Sitting the Glass House” series, 2003-05
Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; variable dimensions. Sitting in the Glass House 2 shown above. Description: Two paintings that shows the artists in Philip Johnson’s Glass House. “In Sitting in the Glass House, he made himself at home […]
Jill Magid, Homage to the Square, 1963, After Josef Albers, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Oil on hardboard. Description: “In Homage Magid considers the eschewal of intellectual property rights in favor of sharing. This concept is explored through the mutually respectful relationship between the Bauhaus modernist Josef Albers and Mexico’s pre-eminent modernist […]
Jill Magid, Tracing Albers’ Chair, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: HD video; 4 minutes 58 seconds. Description: “Aided by the precise notes Albers left on the back of his paintings which tell of the colours, brands, and condition of each of the paints he used, but thwarted […]
Jill Magid, Butaca Chair, After Josef Albers, After Luis Barragán, After Clara Porset, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Wood, leather. Description: “Aided by the precise notes Albers left on the back of his paintings which tell of the colours, brands, and condition of each of the paints he used, but thwarted by many of the […]
Andrea Geyer, “Asterism” series, 2016
Artist: Andrea Geyer (born 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Collaged archival prints; variable dimensions. Description: “The intimate collages of ‘Asterism’ combine photographs of women active at the Bauhaus in Dessau as teachers and students until 1933 with Joseph Albers Constellation drawings from the 1950s. The […]
