Folds. Tauba Auerbach. Sternberg Press.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25th, 2012Tags: Bergen Kunsthall, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Emmanuelle Dauplay, Folds, Italo Calvino, Joe Gilmore, Qubik, Sternberg Press, Tauba Auerbach
Folds. Tauba Auerbach.
Texts by Emmanuelle Dauplay, Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Italo Calvino
In connection with Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition “Tetrachromat” at Bergen Kunsthall, Folds presents Auerbach’s eponymous painting series for the first time in book form. In these paintings Auerbach twists and folds the canvas before applying the paint. In its stretched form the flat canvas conjures a trompe l’oeil rendering of its previous three-dimensional state. Transferred to the medium of the book, the paintings are presented here in a new and unexpected way alongside mathematical diagrams and three texts.
Auerbach works with a number of printed media, and the book enjoys a quite central position in her oeuvre: from highly sophisticated book sculptures that are somewhere between physical objects and non-narrative books, to a series of individually made artist books—most recently [2,3] (2011), a pop-up book where six detailed paper sculptures emerge from the book’s pages.
Co-published with Bergen Kunsthall
Design by Joe Gilmore, Qubik, with Tauba Auerbach
D 28€