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Design heroes: Josef Albers | Jazz record covers | 1959/60
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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Vincent Namatjira | Aboriginal artist | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Collection
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.
Text: Wikipedia, image ©Vincent Namatjira, The Royal Tour 12 (detail), 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Jeff Cowen | Provence works | Photography | Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
22 June to 13 October 2024
Analogue craftsmanship and experiment
In a world that is dominated by digital screens, technology, speed and overproduction, Cowen seeks to draw our attention to the sublime experience of nature’s beauty through his work. As a photographic artist, he keeps well away from the digital world and has a real hands-on approach to the craftsmanship of the photographic process. He uses self-made enlargers to create large analog prints on thick, wavy photographic paper. He experiments with darkroom techniques and chemical formulas, rendering each print a unique work.
Image: P126, 2020-2023, Digitalisation: Farbanalyse Cologne ©Jeff Cowen, Copy ©Huis Marseille