Una bella recensione di Lavinia Greenlaw sulla mostra di Anni Albers alla Tate Modern

We studied the Bauhaus at school: Walter Gropius’s theories of design, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color, Marcel Breuer’s tubular-steel chairs. I don’t remember a single woman’s name being mentioned. Years later, when I visited the Bauhaus archive in Berlin, everything that seemed most radical and delightful had been made by a woman. The Bauhaus, a fulcrum of modernist design, claimed that it was open to “any person of good repute, without regard to age or sex”, but Gropius also thought that women were less able than men to think in three dimensions. When Anni Albers (then Fleischmann) joined in 1922, she was, like most women students, allocated to the textiles department. She took the craft of weaving into the heart of the modernist project and asserted its potential as art.

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https://www.newstatesman.com/anni-albers-tate-retrospective-2018-review-textiles?fbclid=IwAR3glX1dJwMtf-hWTNJsUYyb1CHzUJtjlUvojBJ8r_mR98M45VjjZkx3OyE