Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 12, 1972
Color screenprint
Paper: 15 x 40 in
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Edition #427/1000
Copyright The Artist
Further images
I : 12 Two “pianissimo” constructions in extra-thin white lines on extra-light gray grounds. We see twin pairs of exactly reversed open prisms, reaching equally above and below each other....
I : 12
Two “pianissimo” constructions in extra-thin white lines on extra-light gray grounds. We see twin pairs of exactly reversed open prisms, reaching equally above and below each other.
In each pair the upper right-end walls and the lower left-end walls are missing. Missing also are the coverings over the top walls and under the bottom walls. On both sides, between the upper and lower open boxes, there are sideward-stretched parallelograms of equal size and equally placed. These parallelograms fulfill two functions. They are, simultaneously, the bottom of the upper prism and the top of the lower prism, according to our direction of sight. Thus we are confronted by two spatial penetrations. Although all lines exist physically in one two-dimensional plane, in our perception we read this unavoidably in three dimensions.
Two “pianissimo” constructions in extra-thin white lines on extra-light gray grounds. We see twin pairs of exactly reversed open prisms, reaching equally above and below each other.
In each pair the upper right-end walls and the lower left-end walls are missing. Missing also are the coverings over the top walls and under the bottom walls. On both sides, between the upper and lower open boxes, there are sideward-stretched parallelograms of equal size and equally placed. These parallelograms fulfill two functions. They are, simultaneously, the bottom of the upper prism and the top of the lower prism, according to our direction of sight. Thus we are confronted by two spatial penetrations. Although all lines exist physically in one two-dimensional plane, in our perception we read this unavoidably in three dimensions.
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