Anni Albers – 20th Century Modernist Weaving – Exhibition at Tate Modern

Planning to visit – Quotes from Annie Albers on the Tate Modern website info in the meantime which is inspiring:

 

1. Take the opportunity and run with it  – no chance to get into stained glass – next opportunity weaving workshop

2.  Challenge the norms – Galleries and museums didn’t show textiles, that was always considered craft and not art. […] When it’s on paper it’s art.

3.  Travel as much as you can –  To my great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru

4. Learn from the past – Wonderful ancient art, frequently almost unknown, hardly excavated even when it is known.

5. Make useful art – The conscientious designer, does not himself design at all but rather give the object-to-be a chance to design itself.

6.  Get your hands dirty – All progress, so it seems, is coupled to regression elsewhere. We have advanced in general, for instance, in regard to verbal articulation — the reading and writing public of today is enormous. But we have grown certainly increasingly insensitive to our perception of touch — the tactile sense.

7. Embrace emotion – Well you all know how great art can affect you, you breathe differently.