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    The exhibition focuses on the work of Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy, two pioneers of modernism. It highlights their individual accomplishments and dialogue, examining their groundbreaking moves towards abstraction in the early 1920s. The exhibition features over 170 works spanning four decades including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and films.

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    Whitney Museum of American Art

    945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street


    New York, NY 10021 Press Release
    www.whitney.org/press Contact:
    Jan Rothschild, Stephen Soba
    Tel. (212) 570-3633 August 2006
    Fax (212) 570-4169
    pressoffice@whitney.org

    PRESS PREVIEW:
    Tuesday, October 31
    10 am - 12 pm

    WHITNEY MUSEUM TO PRESENT ALBERS AND MOHOLY-NAGY: FROM


    THE BAUHAUS TO THE NEW WORLD
    On view November 2, 2006 through January 21, 2007

    László Moholy-Nagy, K VII, 1922

    Josef Albers, Goldrosa, c. 1926

    Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy were two of the greatest pioneers of Modernism in the 20th
    century. This exhibition, spanning four decades and comprising more than 170 works, focuses on
    their individual accomplishments as well as the dialogue between their works and examines their
    groundbreaking moves towards abstraction in the early 1920s. Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the
    Bauhaus to the New World, organized by Tate Modern, will be on view at the Whitney Museum of
    American Art from November 2, 2006, to January 21, 2007.
    Though the paths of German-born Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Hungarian-born László Moholy-
    Nagy (1895-1946) only overlapped for five years, between 1923 and 1928 when both were
    teaching at the Bauhaus, their artistic practice was informed by similar concerns, including an
    emphasis on experimentation, the subversion of traditional boundaries between media, high and
    applied art, and a probing into the status of the work of art in an age of mass production.

    Offering a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and furniture design,
    this show highlights Albers's eye-catching glass constructions from the 1920s and early 1930s,
    examples of his largely unknown photographic work, his machine engravings and a group of his
    early Homage to the Square paintings. It also features a wide selection of Moholy-Nagy's
    innovative photographs, including his “camera-less” photograms and photomontages, his rarely
    exhibited forays into color photography, his film works, and his experiments with aluminum as well
    as with novel synthetic materials such as Perspex and Rhodoid.

    Moholy-Nagy's Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1930) was reconstructed especially for the
    exhibition. Dramatically lit, this kinetic work comprises several rotating elements that cast lights
    and shadows on the surrounding walls. It is being exhibited more than seventy-five years after the
    original was first displayed at the Grand Palais, in 1930, and is arguably one of the earliest
    examples of installation art. Light Play: Black-White-Grey (1930), a five-and-a-half-minute silent
    film will also be shown; it records the play of light on the Light Prop.

    This exhibition takes as its starting point the years following the First World War, when Albers and
    Moholy-Nagy independently abandoned representation in favor of a rigorously abstract language.
    It then follows their work through the 1920s with a particular focus on their involvement with the
    Bauhaus, Weimar Germany's hothouse for Modernist art and design education. For both artists this
    time was marked by technical innovation, with Albers adopting industrial processes such as
    sandblasting to create an extraordinary series of flashed glass works, and Moholy-Nagy exploring
    new synthetic materials, such as Perspex, as well as experimenting with photography and film.

    The second part of the exhibition is dedicated to the work Albers and Moholy-Nagy produced
    following their emigration to the US, when Albers took up teaching posts first at Black Mountain
    College and then at Yale University, and Moholy-Nagy set to revive the Bauhaus with the short-
    lived New Bauhaus in Chicago before founding his own school, The School of Design in Chicago
    (subsequently The Institute of Design). Their work from the 1930s and 1940s reveals how both
    men built on earlier experiences while ceaselessly pushing the boundaries of their artistic practice.

    Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World was curated by Tate Curator Achim
    Borchardt-Hume. The New York installation is organized by Carter Foster, the Whitney’s Curator of
    Drawings. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue which contains essays by Hal Foster, Achim
    Borchardt-Hume, Nicholas Fox Weber, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Terence A Senter, and Michael White.
    Before coming to the Whitney, the exhibition traveled to the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany.

    About the Whitney


    th st
    The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20 - and 21 -century American
    art. Founded in 1930, the Museum is regarded as the preeminent collection of American art and
    includes major works and materials from the estate of Edward Hopper, the largest public collection
    of works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and Lucas Samaras, as well as significant works by
    Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Kiki
    Smith, and Andy Warhol, among other artists. With its history of exhibiting the most promising and
    influential American artists and provoking intense debate, the Whitney's signature show, the
    Biennial, has become the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in America today.

    IMAGE CAPTIONS (l. to r.):


    Josef Albers, Goldrosa, c. 1926. Sandblasted flashed glass with black paint; 44.6 x 31.4 cm. The Josef and Anni Albers
    Foundation. ©The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bomm and DACS, London 2006. Photograph by Tim
    Nighswander

    László Moholy-Nagy, K VII, 1922, Oil on canvas; 115.3 x 135.9 cm. Tate. Purchased 1961. © 2006 Hattula Moholy-
    Nagy/DACS
    Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art:
    Full House: The Whitney’s Collection at 75 Through September 3, 2006*
    *Edward Hopper on view June 7-December 3, 2006
    Mark Grotjahn September 15, 2006-January 7, 2007
    Picasso and American Art September 28, 2006-January 28, 2007
    Albers and Moholy-Nagy November 2, 2006-January 21, 2007
    Kiki Smith November 16, 2006-February 11, 2007
    Terence Koh January 19 - May 2007
    Gordon Matta-Clark Opens February 2007
    Lorna Simpson March 1-May 6, 2007

    The Whitney Museum is located at 945 Madison Avenue, New York City. Museum hours are: Wednesday, Thursday,
    Saturday, and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., closed Monday and Tuesday. For
    information, please call 1-800 WHITNEY or visit www.whitney.org

    Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria:
    Trace Through November 12, 2006
    Burgeoning Geometries December 7, 2006 – March 11, 2007

    The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria is located at 120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street. Gallery hours:
    Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sculpture Court Hours: Monday
    through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sundays and holidays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Whitney Museum at
    Altria is funded by Altria Group, Inc. Admission is free. Free gallery talks are offered every Wednesday and Friday
    at 1:00 p.m. For further information, please call (917) 663-2453.

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