Weaving Anni Albers

Anni Albers (1899–1994), a German artist and designer, was a key figure who revolutionized the role of textiles in contemporary art. Trained at the Bauhaus school, she moved to the United States in the 1930s with her husband, the painter Josef Albers. There, she taught at Black Mountain College and in 1949 became the first textile artist to have a solo exhibition at the MoMA in New York. The film weaves archival materials with footage of contemporary textile production processes filmed at the Italian company Dedar. The images are accompanied by a voiceover reading texts written by Albers herself. What emerges is a hypnotic journey through the fundamental themes of her poetics: from in-depth studies of ancient Peruvian weaving to the relationship between landscape, architecture, and fabric understood as an integral structural element.