Sul design

Presentation of Anni Albers‘ book Sul design (Preface by Nicholas Fox Weber, Johan & Levi, Milan, 2023)
Execution of John Cage’s Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard, 1950, dedicated to Josef and Anni Albers;
Ensemble 20.21: Nicholas Scherzoso and Giulia Aurora Forlani, violins; Nicola Argelli, piano, Conservatorio Statale ‘Giuseppe Verdi’, Ravenna.
Curated by: Alberto Giorgio Cassani, Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts.
Sul design of Anni Albers is a collection of texts that gives access to an enlightened thought that took shape over fifty years of activity (from her time at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau to the 1980s in the United States), nourished by field experience and theoretical and philosophical readings.
Anni Albers returns to a number of themes that are particularly close to her heart: the superiority of an anonymous and timeless, functional and non-self-referential design, the importance of body to body with the material, the idea that external limits benefit the imagination, the value of audacity; the conviction that the act of creating is the most intense emotion one can know.

Interventions by:
Stefano Mirti, Director of the Milan School of Applied Arts
Laura de Cesare, Weaver and textile designer
Chaired by Alberto Giorgio CassanI