Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach artist tauba auerbach, who lives and works in new york and san francisco, created a beautiful 8 x. Help me understand how the rgb colorspace atlas by. For you designers, think of it as a threedimensional version of a. Purcell at the wide awake garage in easthampton, massachusetts. The rgb colorspace atlas by artist tauba auerbach caught my attention earlier this year but after losing the link, i started to wonder if it was just a. According to the auerbachs website, the books were bound by book artist daniel e. Each book demonstrates a different rgb scheme where hues and shades blend together to form various vibrant color palettes. This beautiful picture book by american artist tauba auerbach is titled rgb colorspace atlas. Not for the colorblind rgb colorspace atlas by tauba. Rgb colorspace atlas is a beautiful picture book by american artist tauba auerbach. It contains digital prints of every possible variation of rgb red, green, blue color. Rgb colorspace atlas, a cubed book depicting every color.
How to spell the alphabet you may be reminded of its cover. The book displays the full rgb gradient in 3,632 pages. Her work addresses principles of math, physics, language and logic, probing the slippages therein. A project by us artist tauba auerbach catalogues every colour you can imagine the rgb colorspace atlas is a 20. Morguefile tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts. As with the echoing section 05 that sent me back to look at arcangels contribution in section 01, the color play of riedels frieze cmyk returned me to tauba auerbachs entry in section 01. San franciscoborn, new yorkbased artist tauba auerbach has described her work as. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach image via brittany schall american artist tauba auerbach presents the 8 x 8 x 8inch hardback cubes illustrating the rgb color scheme in a pagebypage medium. Tauba auerbach has created an incredible atlas of every. Tauba auerbach b1981 is an artist living and working in new york.
Categories art, book, color, print leave a comment. The rgb colorspace atlas by new yorkbased artist tauba auerbach is a set of books created to illustrate the whole rgb colour gradient in a. Net, cofounder and editorial director at holo magazine, director of platform at frm and researcherlecturer at the university of. Each pattern contains an equal amount of the color black and the color white. The show extends her interests in chirality and topology and takes up martin gardners book the new ambidextrous universe. With an airbrushed cloth cover and book edges, its a creative. A conversation with tauba auerbach sculpture magazine. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas were created in 2011. The rgb colorspace atlas by artist tauba auerbach is supposedly every rgb color, printed in a book. The rgb colorspace atlas by new yorkbased artist tauba auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of rgb color possible. The printing procedure was digital offset and the cloth covers and edges were airbrushed. The 3,632 page hardback measures 8x8x8 it is gigantic and must have been a serious achievement for independent book binder daniel e. The title of the article tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color. The visual artist who specializes in sculpture, photography, books and painting has created the colorful work, which is similar, in idea, to the photoshop color picker.
The production of a movable book in a large edition yields a small number of idiosyncrasies. Digital offset print on paper, case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges. The book of colours tauba auerbach the rgb colorspace atlas by new yorkbased artist tauba auerbach. For you designers, think of it as a threedimensional version of a photoshop color picker. Behold the rgb colorspace atlas by artist tauba auerbach. Tauba auerbach is a visual artist who creates paintings, sculptures, photographs, books, instruments and weavings. It is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of rgb color possible.
Its a book that features the full color gradient in pages. Artist tauba auerbach, who lives and works in new york and san francisco, created a beautiful 8 x 8 x 8 inch cubed offset print on paper case bound book titled rgb colorspace atlas that depicts every color imaginable on its airbrushed cloth cover, the pages and page edges. The books attempt to illustrate the rgb color shceme in a pagebypage format. In exploring the nature of color, language, logic, and dimensionality, her work in abstraction probes the limits of visual and spatial perception. From what i know and have experienced as a designer, the rgb color space is intended for screen display, while the intended color space for print is cmyk. Her work operates in the gap between conceptual art, abstraction and graphic art. Rgb color space is a widely used threedimensional model of the visible spectrum. All mixtures of different colors and all shades and tints possible. Weighing in at 1670 pages, it was digitally offset printed on paper.
Help me understand how the rgb colorspace atlas by artist. Printed book attempts to display every rgb color combination. Rgb stands for the light primariesred, green, and blue. Symmetry and asymmetry from mirror reflection to superstrings. Rgb colorspace atlas 2011 digital offset print on paper, case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges three books, 8 x 8 x 8 inches each 20. And rightfully so, for it is a complete, encyclopedic, display of the rgb gradient in a pagebypage index. Tauba auerbach born 1981 in san francisco, california is a visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists books, photography, and sculpture. Digital offset printing on mohawk superfine paper, 3200 pages, linen, binders board, acrylic paint. What inspired you to create a bound book in the form of a cube. But i was misremembering and thinking of her work titled 2,3. The project consists of three 8 x 8 x 8inch hardcover books representing an rgb. Inside the covers are 50 pages, each containing a different pattern on each side of each page.
American artist tauba auerbach created 8 x 8 x 8inch hardback cubes that illustrate the rgb color scheme in a pagebypage medium. The book binding was codesigned by both tauba and book artist daniel e. The six volumes will be housed in a specially designed slipcase, and each folio will measure 20 x 32 when open. So i came across this awesome bookcubeatlas by tauba auerbach. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color imaginable.
New yorkbased artist tauba auerbach dabbles in a little bit of everything, including. Rgb colorspace atlas was included in tauba auerbachs solo exhibition tetrachromat, wiels contemporary art centre, brussels, belgium, march 22june 2, 20. Rgb colorspace atlas is a collection of 8x8x8inch casebound books that present viewers with the rgb red, green, blue color model. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas the arts in new. Rgb colorspace atlas contains every colour in the universe. Rgb colorspace atlas 2011, with its experience of molten color, is one of my favorites. While much of auerbachs work has previously dealt with compositions staged in the flux state between 2d and 3d, 2,3 represents an expansion for the artist towards a more. See more ideas about tauba auerbach, art and textures patterns. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color. Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by tauba auerbach.
Tauba auerbach is a new yorkbased artist whose debut solo exhibition in the uk will be at the institute of contemporary arts in london from april 16 to june 15, 2014. But i feel that it may be useful to many artists and editors. For 2,3, auerbach has created an oversized popup book featuring six diecut paper sculptures that unfold into wonderful, elaborate forms. If you are familiar with auerbachs previous publication how to spell the alphabet tauba auerbach.
The rgb colorspace atlas illustratesthe rgb gradient in the pagebypage format using digital offset printing paper. Kelm at his bindery, wide awake garage, with assistance by leah h. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach daily design. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach image via brittany schall. Artist tauba auerbach created this dazzling 8 x 8 x 8 hardbound book with the help of daniel e. This wordless cube of a book, titled rgb colorspace atlas, is an 8x8x8 inch structure which was featured in auerbachs most recent exhibit at the bergen kunsthall in norway along with many other of her works on color perception. New york based american artist, tauba auerbach has created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes, in a project entitled the rgb colorspace atlas. Each volume contains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels. Born 1981 in san francisco, ca lives and works in new york education 19992003 ba visual art, stanford university, palo alto, ca awards 2016 queen sonja print award 2016, oslo, norway 2011 artist research fellowship, smithsonian institution 2008 seca art award, sf moma, san francisco, ca 2008 eureka fellowship, the fleischhacker foundation oneperson exhibitions. A 2011 work by artist tauba auerbach, rgb colorspace atlas is a set of cubical books, each of which has been printed, inside and out, to match the familiar cubical model of the rgb color space. Flipping through a beautiful rainbow book my modern met. Though best known for her painting, auerbach works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, photography, bookmaking and musical instrument design. Kelm assisted by leah hughes at the wide awake garage. Tauba auerbach is a contemporary american artist best known for her varied use of painting, printmaking, photography, and installation to examine the underlying structures of language and perception.
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