Josef Albers Solo Exhibition at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

January 9–August 22, 2021

Josef Albers: The Interaction of Color is inspired by the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s rare German edition of The Interaction of Color, featuring eighty-one silkscreen color studies that serve as a record of Josef Albers’s experiential way of studying and teaching color.

Forty-five years after the artist’s death, this exhibition presents a selection of works from The Interaction of Color, which was originally conceived of as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, educators, and students. On view in the Bechtler’s intimate second-floor gallery, the exhibition features forty-two double-page screenprints, each demonstrating the ways in which colors can interact and influence each other. Josef Albers suggested that color is best studied via experience, underpinned by experimentation and observation. Visitors see examples of different color study exercises that demonstrate principles including color relativity, vibrating and vanishing boundaries, and illusion of transparence and reversed grounds.