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The title of the exhibition is taken from Anni Albers’ 1938 essay Work with Material in which she claimed: “…we must come down to earth from the clouds where we live in vagueness and experience the most real thing there is: material.”

Albers (1899-1994), studied and taught at the Bauhaus. Having begun as a painter she developed a life-long fascination for abstraction and found a freedom of expression in the stability provided by the strict grid of the loom. She explored the technical limits of hand-weaving before pioneering innovative uses of woven fabric as art, architecture and design. In …