Tauba Auerbach. Tetrachromat

In TAUBA AUERBACH’S work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topology, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes.

The title of the exhibition plays on the notion of ‘tetrachromatic’ vision. People normally perceive the world around them trichromatically (in three colours). Humans have three types of receptor for the perception of colour with varying sensitivities: red, green and blue. A new theory exists that there may be a small percentage of people (only women) who have a fourth colour receptor, which makes them ‘tetrachromatic’. In order to play on such ideas of a fourth component which, if it could be proven, would radically change our view of the world, Auerbach employs two analogies in this exhibition – the spatial (the idea of a fourth dimension) and the spectral (a fourth colour spectrum).

Curator : Solveig Øvstebø

The exhibition has been initiated by Bergen Kunsthall, in collaboration with Malmö Kunsthall and WIELS

Tauba Auerbach
Tetrachromat
Kurator: Solveig Ovstebo

Stationen:
11.11.2011 - 22.12.2011 Bergen Kunsthall
17.03.2012 - 10.06.2012 Malmö Konsthall
22.03.2013 - 02.06.2013 WIELS Brüssel