Tauba Auerbach: TIDE

Fridericianum Kassel

15 July 2023 to 14 January 2024

Contemporary art

Tauba Auerbach: TIDE

Fridericianum Kassel

15 July 2023 to 14 January 2024

Tauba Auerbach, born in 1981 in San Francisco and now living in New York, traces the visible and invisible patterns, structures, and rhythms that shape our universe. In addition, Auerbach’s artistic gaze is oriented toward the microcosmic and macrocosmic that constitute the complexity of being. To this end, the artist explores various scientific disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, anatomy, linguistics, and philosophy, while often adopting their rules and methods in an unconventional, willful manner.

A special focus of interest lies in those areas that cannot be clearly measured, ascribed, or explained. Ambiguities, interstices, and borderline phenomena are thus recurring themes. Auerbach’s works, featuring paintings, drawings, weavings, films, artist’s books, typography, and sculptures, can be seen as sensitive associations to this artistic research. They are, on the one hand, characterized by an innovative aesthetic and language of form and, on the other, by a remarkable versatility, affording Auerbach a unique position in contemporary art discourse.

The show at the Fridericianum features new works, some developed especially for Kassel, which are complemented by site-specifically staged older works.

The publishing house Diagonal Press was founded by Tauba Auerbach in 2013 with the aim of continuously giving more space to their experiments in typography, book design and production, and the applied arts. At the DIAGONAL PRESS LIBRARY, the Fridericianum presents a selection from the publishing lineup.

Tauba Auerbach: TIDE
15.07.2023 – 14.01.2024
Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, 34117 Kassel

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Press material

Press photos

TIDE

  • Tauba Auerbach: Org (detail), 2023
    Photo: Steven Probert
  • Tauba Auerbach: Extended Object, 2020
    Acryl auf Leinwand, Holzkeilrahmen / Acrylic on canvas, wood stretcher 35,6 × 45,7 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Lance Brewer (Foto / Photo) Courtesy STANDARD (OSLO)
  • Tauba Auerbach: A Flexible Fabric of Inflexible Parts (detail), 2015
    Borosilikatglas auf Tisch aus Aluminium, Holz, Farbe / Borosilicate glass on table of aluminum, wood, paint 11 spiralförmige Komponentenn/ 11 helical components: je ca. / each approx. 7,6 × 7,6 × 80 cm Gesamtdimension / Overall dimensions: 7,6 × 198,1 × 63,5 cm
    Tisch / Table: 59,7 × 213,4 × 213,4 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Spontaneous Lace, 2023
    Ofengeformtes Glas in Aluminiumarmatur / Kiln-formed glass in aluminum armature 76,2 × 21,3 × 1 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Foam, 2023
    Acryl auf Dibond / Acrylic on Dibond 40,6 × 61 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo)
    Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Org (detail), 2023 Geflochtene Glasperlen / Woven glass beads 5,1 × 204,5 × 105,1 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Spontaneous Lace (detail), 2023
    Ofengeformtes Glas in Aluminiumarmatur / Kiln-formed glass in aluminum armature 106,7 × 18,4 × 1 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Grain – Mandelbrot Quartet Escape (Ventrella Variation), 2022 Acryl auf Leinwand, Holzkeilrahmen / Acrylic on canvas, wood stretcher
    152,4 × 114,3 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Ligature Drawing, 28 August 2021, 2021
    Tinte auf Papier mit Datumsstempel / Ink on paper with date stamp 81,6 × 68,6 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

DIAGONAL PRESS LIBRARY

  • Tauba Auerbach: Unfolded Tesseract, 2017
    3D-bedrucktes Nylon, Bristolkarton, Gummistempel / 3D printed nylon, Bristol board box, rubber stamp 9,53 × 15,24 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Diagonal Press, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Fractal Flag III, 2017 Lasergeschnittene Nylonflaggen / Laser-cut nylon flags 86,4 × 154,94 cm
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Diagonal Press, New York
  • Tauba Auerbach: Up Died OG Type Specimen Poster
    Schriftart entworfen 2010, gedruckt 2013 / Typeface designed 2010, printed 2013 Siebdruck auf Papier / Screen print on paper
    62,23 × 49,53 cm (doppelseitig / double sided)
    © Tauba Auerbach, Steven Probert (Foto / Photo) Courtesy Diagonal Press, New York