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Josef Albers

JOSEF ALBERS

Duets David Zwirner 15 January–21 March 2026 Paris
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce Josef Albers: Duets, opening at the gallery’s Paris location in January 2026. The exhibition presents significant paintings and works on paper from the 1930s through the 1970s in which two related forms are played against one another. Albers was fascinated by such dualities. He guides us to recognize first that either two disparate paintings or two disparate elements within a single painting are in many ways the same but also vary from one another because of shifts in color or their internal structures.

In some of the works, one element is simply a reversal of the other, but usually the pairings are more complex. In all instances, the viewer becomes engaged not just with individual images, themselves of great force and beauty, but also with the wonderful experience of two (and sometimes more) variations on a single theme, providing the sort of rich diversion offered by the music of J.S. Bach, whose work was a passion of Albers dating back to his childhood and increasing when he was at the Bauhaus.

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Exhibition view: Josef Albers, Duets, David Zwirner, Paris (15 January–21 March 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Josef Albers, Duets, David Zwirner, Paris (15 January–21 March 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Josef Albers, Duets, David Zwirner, Paris (15 January–21 March 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Josef Albers, Duets, David Zwirner, Paris (15 January–21 March 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Josef Albers, Duets, David Zwirner, Paris (15 January–21 March 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
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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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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108 rue Vieille du Temple
Paris
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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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Paris 108 rue Vieille du Temple
David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in Paris
David Zwirner
108 rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France
+33 (0)1 85 09 43 21
http://www.davidzwirner.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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