Tauba Auerbach / Pa/Per View
dal 21/3/2013 al 1/6/2013
Segnalato da
21/3/2013
Tauba Auerbach / Pa/Per View
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
Tetrachromat, a solo show by Auerbach, refers to a theory that there may be a small percentage of people who have a fourth type of colour receptor on their retinas. Surface and the larger issues surrounding topology have been central concerns in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books. Pa/Per View is an art book fair bringing together 30 leading artist book publishers.
Tauba Auerbach: Tetrachromat
22.03 – 02.06.2013
cuarted by Solveig Øvstebø
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.
Although Auerbach draws much of her inspiration from mathematics and physics, her visual output intersects equally with the basic themes of art history. Her paintings raise fundamental issues in new ways, among them the depiction of three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface, and the relationship between abstraction and representation. Auerbach interweaves disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes.
The exhibition has been initiated by Bergen Kunsthall, in collaboration with Malmö Kunsthall and WIELS
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PA/PER VIEW
Art Book Fair
23 rd - 24 th March 2013
11-6 pm
PA/PER VIEW art book fair brings together 30 leading artist book publishers. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image.
— 20TH Century Art Archives UK
— Afterall UK
— Alauda Publications NL
— Almine Rech BE/FR
— Archive Books DE
— Art Paper Editions BE
— Bartleby&Co BE
— Bom Dia Boa tarde Boa Noite DE
— Casachrome BE
— DE PLAYER NL
— Edition Taube DE
— From Me To You Publications BE
— GAGARIN BE
— Gevaert Editions BE
— Ghost PT
— Institutions DE
— Les Editions HORROR VACUI FR
— Kültur Büro Barcelona - Buenos Aires ES/AR
— Manuella Editions FR
— MARK PAWSON UK
— Mark Pezinger Verlag DE/AT
— MER.Paper Kunsthalle BE
— Möbius Publications BE
— MOREpublishers BE
— Mousse IT
— Nero IT
— Onomatopee NL
— Paraguay Press FR
— Post Editions NL
— Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs BE
— Ridinghouse UK
— Roma Publications NL
— STET PT
— Theophile’s Papers BE
— Torpedo NO
— WIELS - Motto DE/BE
— Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E SI
www.paperviewartbookfair.org
Image: 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.
Micha Pycke
Press & communication
micha.pycke@wiels.org
+32 (0)2 340 00 51
+32 (0)486 680 070
Preview: 22nd March 6-9 pm
Talk by Tauba Auerbach
23.03.2013, 15:00
On the occasion of PA/PER VIEW 2013 and in the frame of her exhibition Tetrachromat at WIELS, Tauba Auerbach wil discuss the possibility of a fourth color receptor and the possibility of a fourth (and more) spatial dimension. She will describe the processes used in making the works, and how they address topology and tetrachromacy.
Info & réservation: welcome@wiels.org
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