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Josef Albers

JOSEF ALBERS

Duets David Zwirner 9 April–22 May 2026 Los Angeles
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David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Josef Albers (1888–1976) opening at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Organised in collaboration with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, this exhibition is an iteration of Josef Albers: Duets, which opened at David Zwirner Paris in January 2026 and featured paired compositions wherein two related forms are played against one another. The presentation in Los Angeles will further explore the concept of dualities, a prevailing fascination for the artist. As Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, notes: “Albers delighted in pointing out that ‘in math and science, one plus one is two; in art, one plus one is two and also many more.’ Lifelong, he would periodically play two related forms against one another to demonstrate the multiple events, exciting and mysterious, that occur as a result of dualities. To juxtapose closely related forms enabled Albers to give you, the audience whom he cherished, a visual feast.”

This will be the first significant exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to Albers’s work in several decades and will offer an opportunity to celebrate the artist’s history with prominent institutions in the city. The last major solo presentation in Los Angeles of Albers’s work was at Margo Leavin Gallery in 1985, following a 1966 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and three solo shows at the iconic Ferus Gallery in the early 1960s. Also in the early 1960s, Albers was a visiting artist and a fellow at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, where he established what would become a productive, yearslong working relationship with master printer Kenneth Tyler and produced important series of lithographs.

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About the Artist

Josef Albers (1888–1976) is considered one of the most influential abstract painters of the twentieth century, as well as an important designer and educator. Albers’s artistic career, which bridged European and American Modernism, consisted mainly of a tightly focused investigation into the perceptual properties of colour and spatial relationships. Working with simple geometric forms, Albers sought to produce the effects of chromatic interaction, in which the visual perception of a colour is affected by those adjacent to it. Albers’s precise application of colour also created plays of space and depth, as the planar coloured shapes that make up the majority of his works appear to either recede into or protrude out of the picture plane.

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