Tetrachromat, exhibition view at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
image © wfw

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Untitled (Fold), 2011
Acrylic on canvas / Wooden stretcher
182.9 x 137.2 cm
courtesy the artist and Standard, Oslo

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Untitled (Fold), 2011
exhibition view at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, March 2013
image © wfw

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Corner IV, 2011
Woven canvas on wooden stretcher
152.4 x 114.3 cm
courtesy the artist and Standard, Oslo

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RGB Colorspace Atlas Volume 1, 2 & 3, 2011
exhibition view at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, March 2013
image © wfw

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Shadow Weave (Interlock, image), 2011
Woven canvas on wooden stretcher
152.4 x 114.3 cm
courtesy the artist

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exhibition view at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, March 2013
image © wfw

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If you are in Brussels these days, don’t miss this audacious exhibition of TAUBA AUERBACH’s prolific production of paintings, book sculptures and weaving works at the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre.

Entitled Tetrachromat*, this exhibition features a series of her early and recent works exploring patterns, pushing the boundaries of structures, depicting the three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface, and weaving constant conversation between abstraction and representation.

From the trompe l’oeil crumpled canvasses (Fold ) to rhythmically complex sculptural objects, TAUBA is questioning notion of perception and representation through her love of craftsmanship as well as her passion for mathematical, alphabetical and geometric systems.

I think I always make work about logic in some way. Taking things that are assumed to be linear and making them double back on themselves or knotting them up…posing questions to myself about the way I was taught to think and reason. Posing questions about the structure of a question. For a long time, language was sort of the medium I was using to try these things out, but now I’m working almost entirely abstractly. There is less opportunity to take this work literally, and I think that shifts the locus of inquiry onto the viewer in a good way – TAUBA AUERBACH in conversation with ANDREA HYDE

With deep reverence for craftsmanship, fine-tuned aesthetic intuition and an admirably broad curiosity about the world and the universe, the former commercial sign writer seemingly works with left and right brains tightly fused. ‘Tetrachromat’ is an audacious display whose beauty remains somehow inexplicable. – AMELIA GROOM

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