Selected Exhibitions by Tauba Auerbach

Installation view of ‘Reciprocal Score’ by Tauba Auerbach at Indipendenza Gallery in Rome, Italy.

0290 Corner I.

0302 Corner IV.

0305 Weave I.

Tauba Auerbach is a New York-based visual artist, working in painting, photography, and sculpture. Drawing inspiration from mathematics and physics, Auerbach explores relationships between 2D and 3D, between abstraction and representation, and the perception of space in her work. In today’s post we share with you our two favourite exhibitions by Auerbach – ‘Reciprocal Score’ at Indipendenza Gallery in Rome, Italy and ‘Tetrachromat’ at Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway – each one explores her unique methods for manipulating then rebuilding the canvas in newly crafted and geometric ways.

Installation view of ‘Reciprocal Score’ by Tauba Auerbach at Indipendenza Gallery in Rome, Italy.

0303 Shadow Weave.

0304 Shadow Weave.

‘Reciprocal Score’ at Indipendenza Gallery in Rome, Italy // In preparation for her exhibition of ‘woven’ works, Auberbach made several trips to Rome to scout a suitable location that could bring an architectural and ornamental dimension to the show. The resulting setting at Indipendenza is pretty remarkable, and allows the viewer to absorb the work in an entirely different way. The historical setting encourages a strong appreciation for the craftsmanship in each work, despite their overall geometric aesthetic. As in most of her painting works, Auberbach manipulates the canvas surface – this time cutting it into strips and then twisting and looping the strips using a range of weaving techniques to explore 3D perceptions of space. The resulting work features monochromatic palettes and tight geometric patterning.

‘Tetrachromat’ at Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway // At her ‘Tetrachromat’ exhibition in Norway, Auerbach presented her ‘fold’ works – a series of iridescent manipulated canvas’ that explore ideas of dimensionality and tri-chromatic colour theory. To create the end result, the artist twists and folds the canvas, ironing or pressing it to imbed folds in the material. She then lays the canvas flat and paints it with an industrial paint gun, resulting in a painted surface that has the illusion of three-dimensional folded fabric, almost appearing digitally rendered.

0186 Untitled (Fold).

0219 Untitled (Fold).

0228 Untitled (Fold).

0237 Untitled (Fold).

0239 Untitled (Fold).

Across all of her work, Auerbach explores the limits of our logic systems from a spatial and mathematic perspective, and her poetic outcomes fill a neat gap in the art world, somewhere between conceptual art, abstraction and graphics. We simply couldn’t dig it any more.

0259 Embossment Painting 4.