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Michael Maranda “ARTFORUMx” at Artexte, Montréal

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Michael Maranda, ARTFORUMx, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Arttexte

Michael Maranda
ARTFORUMx
7 February – 25 May 2013
at Artexte, Montréal

ARTFORUMx is an installation that sustains a critical re-reading of the Artforum magazine. The project makes use of a colour coding system that recalls both hard-edge modernist painting and the quantitative methods employed in sociological analysis. The colours in ARTFORUMx reveal the number and size of advertisements placed in the magazine from June 1962 to the summer 2010 issue. Five summary volumes accompany the exhibition, in addition to a series of watercolours.
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Tauba Auerbach “Tetrachromat” at WIELS, Brussels

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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.
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