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2024 (created in 1959)

Josef Albers was approached to design the covers for a series of jazz records in what turned out to be one of the artist’s rare graphic design projects. “Josef was deeply influenced by Bach and was fascinated with rhythm. Think about the way that percussion sounds and you realise that the large squares on these covers are almost like kettle drums and the little squares more like hi-hats”, said his commissioning editor. Form, for him, always had to conform to purpose even in graphics.

Albers was a German-born American artist who joined the Weimar and Dessau Bauhaus from 1922 to 1933. He emigrated to the US in 1933 to flee Nazism. He later headed the Yale University design department.

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albersfoundation.org

Copy ©dezeen.com, image ©Joseph Albers, 1959

October 5, 2024 until January 26, 2025

Artist Miriam Cahn evokes powerful emotions with simple brushstrokes and a vigorous drawing style. Her paintings and drawings depict human atrocities with brutal reality.

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Copy ©Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Image ©Miriam Cahn, ‘o.t.’, 8.3.2021, photo: François Doury. Courtesy of the artist; Meyer Riegger and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris

2024

I paint people who are wealthy, powerful, or significant – people who have had an influence on this country, and on me personally, whether directly or indirectly, whether for good or for bad.  Vincent Namatjira

Namatjira’s  portraits resemble caricatures, bordering on outsider art. But according to the art historian Wes Hill they also have “a level of sophistication that only a colourist, not a satirist, could possess”. Born 1983, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, he lives and works Indulkana, South Australia Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

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iwantjaarts.com.au

Text: Wikipedia, image ©Vincent Namatjira, The Royal Tour 12 (detail), 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia