Josef Albers In Mexico

Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 3 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

"Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936.

Together with his wife Anni, Joseph Albers toured pre-Columbian archeological sites and monuments during his numerous trips to Mexico and Latin America between 1935 and 1968. On each visit, he took photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries and landscapes, which he later assembled into rarely seen photo collages.

This exhibition catalogue reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers' abstract works on canvas and paper.