Josef Albers

From: Artforum | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Mehring, Christine | Copyright information

BOLOGNA

Museo Morandi

January 28-April 30

Curated by Peter Weiermair and Giusi Vecchi

Jasper Johns once took a color test designed by Josef Albers and reported back: "Mr. Albers, I took your color test and got all the answers wrong." Albers beamed, "Dot's vunderful. You got 100 percent." One by one, the famous "Homage to the Square...

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