Anni Albers | Study made on the typewriter

Anni Albers

Study made on the typewriter

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2018

27 x 16.9 cm.

Edition of 5

As part of her weaving process, Anni Albers experimented with different materials and means, such as twisting and puncturing paper, and using corn kernels and metal shavings. 

For Study made on the typewriter she used the typewriter keys and black ink to create a pattern reminiscent of a textile. 

 

In 2018, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation released a high quality printed reproduction of the work, in an edition of five, as a fundraiser for the Tambacounda Hospital Maternity & Paediatric Unit. 

The works are priced at £1,000.00 and appear to still be available.  

"Our experience of gaining a representational means through the use of different surface qualities leads us to the use of illusions of such qualities graphically produced, though not by the means of representational graphic — that is, the modulated line. Drawing or print that shows hatching or stippling, rippled or curled lines, etc., and thus has a structural appearance, can be used to produce, if not actual tactile surfaces, the illusion of them. The tactile-textile illusions produced on the typewriter may illustrate this point. These varied experiments in articulation are to be understood not as an end

in themselves but merely as a help to us in gaining new terms in the vocabulary of tactile language."

- Anni Albers, On Weaving, 1965