Josef Albers — Glove Stretchers III, 1928, on Gallery Wall

5 October 2017 · Paris

Josef Albers made Glove Stretchers III in 1928 using sandblasted glass — a material most artists of his era ignored. Two hand forms sit side by side on a dark ground: one striped solid white, one rendered as a thin outline, both hung on glove-stretcher hooks. The Bauhaus logic is right there in the method: the industrial process is the drawing tool, and the tool determines the form. Seen here on a gallery wall in Paris, wall label included.