Urban Art Association

Tauba Auerbach etchings , by artylang on Oct 24, 2021 17:45:44 GMT 1, $3500 each shipped within the USA. Matching #s

"I created three plates. And these three pigment primaries are like the process primaries used for printing –cyan, magenta, and yellow. And on each plate there’s a random pattern of colored squares and blank squares, and they overlap at varous probabilities to create seven possible colors–or eight if you include the white. So, the three primaries, the three secondaries, and then a seventh color where all three overlap, and then the white where none overlap." Tauba Auerbach



So if I’m reading that right, each plate could be printed with any of the three colors. The plates x inks would generate a the number of permutations–though it’d be doubled if the top and bottom of the rectangular plates are reversed.

As I’m typing this, it sounds like a Sol Lewitt, too, an early, exhaustive Lewitt serialization made in the mature Lewitt’s palette. But there are at least 84 possible combinations for each print–if the top/bottom of each plate don’t matter, there are 816–and Auerbach’s edition size is only 30. Sounds like introducing a bit of randomness into the process was plenty. I’m sure her printers were relieved.

greg.org/archive/2009/07/26/a-closer-look-at-tauba-auerbachs-pixels.html


TAUBA AUERBACH

A Half Times A Half Times A Half (Coarse)

2008



Color aquatint.



Somerset white

textured paper

Image size 28" x 21½"

Paper size 39" x 30¼"

Edition of 30

TAUBA AUERBACH

A Half Times A Half Times A Half (Fine)

2008



Color aquatint.



Somerset white

textured paper

Image size 28" x 21½"

Paper size 39" x 30¼"

Edition of 30

$3500 each shipped within the USA. Matching #s

"I created three plates. And these three pigment primaries are like the process primaries used for printing –cyan, magenta, and yellow. And on each plate there’s a random pattern of colored squares and blank squares, and they overlap at varous probabilities to create seven possible colors–or eight if you include the white. So, the three primaries, the three secondaries, and then a seventh color where all three overlap, and then the white where none overlap." Tauba Auerbach



So if I’m reading that right, each plate could be printed with any of the three colors. The plates x inks would generate a the number of permutations–though it’d be doubled if the top and bottom of the rectangular plates are reversed.

As I’m typing this, it sounds like a Sol Lewitt, too, an early, exhaustive Lewitt serialization made in the mature Lewitt’s palette. But there are at least 84 possible combinations for each print–if the top/bottom of each plate don’t matter, there are 816–and Auerbach’s edition size is only 30. Sounds like introducing a bit of randomness into the process was plenty. I’m sure her printers were relieved.

greg.org/archive/2009/07/26/a-closer-look-at-tauba-auerbachs-pixels.html


TAUBA AUERBACH

A Half Times A Half Times A Half (Coarse)

2008



Color aquatint.



Somerset white

textured paper

Image size 28" x 21½"

Paper size 39" x 30¼"

Edition of 30

TAUBA AUERBACH

A Half Times A Half Times A Half (Fine)

2008



Color aquatint.



Somerset white

textured paper

Image size 28" x 21½"

Paper size 39" x 30¼"

Edition of 30