5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for August 2024
...Textile Universes Kunstmuseum Thun promise to initiate just such a loosening and bending through a presentation that not only aims to elucidate that Johannes Itten was more than colour, painting, the Weimar Vorkurs or the troubling world view of Mazdaznan, and that he was also very much textiles, nor only help assist Gunta Stölzl's post-Bauhaus biography and manifold work and experimentation in Switzerland to take its place alongside, and in context of, her popularly known Bauhaus era work and biography, but for all allow Stölzl and Itten to once again pick up the dialogue and discourse they undertook and led over many decades, starting in Weimar and continuing in Switzerland, and which was important in the development of the positions, approaches and works of both...
