giovedì 2 dicembre 2010

TAUBA AUERBACH


Tauba Auerbach, born in 1981 in Frisco.
She's so elegant, and methodical in her optical trickery. I love her works.
Auerbach has a background in typography and an interest in scientific books. Her work can be described as an exploration of semiotics, with a playful hint.
Like a scientist, she dissects language as a code of symbols and a conduit for ideas.
She's (like me and Lewis Carrol, etc.) so into anagram (a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another), which historically has been utilized to carry secret messages or hidden meanings and by great writers such Carroll and most of all, Nabokov.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Quarry, Whitney Museum Construction Site Installation, New York

2010
New Year, Western Bridge, Seattle

2009
Here and Now/And Nowhere, Deitch Projects, New York

2008
Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California

2008
The Uncertainly Principle, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

2007
The Answer/Wasn’t Here, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California

2006
Yes and Not Yes, Deitch Projects, New York

2005
All Time, All the Time, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, California

2005
How to Spell the Alphabet, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California