Tauba Auerbach: RGB Colorspace Atlas Volume 3, 2011. Digital offset printing on mohawk superfine paper, 3200 pages, linen, binder’s board, acrylic paint. Edition of 3. 20.3 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm (closed). Binding: Daniel E. Kelm and Leah H. Purcell at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Vegard Kleven.
Tauba Auerbach
Tetrachromat
22 March – 2 June 2013
at WIELS, Brussels
Tauba Auerbach is considered one of the most innovative painters of our time. Her work collapses traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content. Surface and the larger issues surrounding topology have been central concerns in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books.
The title of the exhibition refers to a theory that there may be a small percentage of people – for genetic reasons, only women – who have a fourth type of colour receptor on their retinas. Most humans are trichromats, with receptors sensitive to red, green and blue wavelengths of light which combine to create the spectrum of visible colours. The tetrachromat, supposedly equipped with an extra variable that modulates every one of these colors, would therefore see distinctions between colours that are invisible to the trichromat. [read the full text here]
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Tauba Auerbach: Untitled (Fold), 2011. Acrylic on canvas / Wooden stretcher. 182.9 x 137.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo. Photo: Vegard Kleven
Tauba Auerbach, Tetrachromat, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo. Photo: Vegard Kleven
Tauba Auerbach, Tetrachromat, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo. Photo: Vegard Kleven.