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. Her work operates in the gap between conceptual art, abstraction and graphic art. There are three books in the set, each bound along a different axis, to allow free exploration of the. By turning the pages, one can access practically any point within the volume of the cube. By linking mathematical philosophy and scientific theory with larger, existential human concerns, auerbach produces an array of complex conceptual and visual experiments that. In her drawings, paintings and artists books, san franciscobased tauba auerbach investigates the relationship between spoken and written language. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas were created in 2011. Rgb colorspace atlas shows every shade in a cubic 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. So for example, an area of the green in the book represents a green that. The colorspace atlas, allrgb, and hyperbolic puzzles.
An artist printed the complete rgb colorspace into books. The way that tauba plays with words in these pieces reminds me both of the word art of scott kim and the word puzzles of douglas hofstadter. The 8inch cube rgb colorspace atlas by artist tauba auerbach shows every color in said colorspace. The new ambidextrous universe, institute of contemporary arts, london, uk 416 61514 20 gnomonwave, part of the night 1947 2015 sculptureinresidence program at philip johnson glass house, new canaan, ct 52 9.
This is a simulation of one volume in a set of three books by tauba auerbach. Each color on the swatchbook has full bleedoff so that you can compare your work directly against the swatch. A set of 3 simulations of tauba auerbachs rgb colospace atlas books. The book displays the full rgb gradient in 3,632 pages. 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. It contains digital prints of every possible variation of rgb red, green, blue color. American artist tauba auerbach created the rgb color cube as an 8x8x8inch hardback book. In brussels tauba auerbach also presents the 8 x 8 x 8inch hardback cubes illustrating the color spectrum through digital offset print in a pagebypage medium.
American artist tauba auerbach printed the rgb colorspace atlas as a record of the full rgb gradient in 3,632 stunning pages of pigmented awesomeness. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach image via brittany schall. Tauba auerbach rgb colorspace atlas jonathan turner. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color imaginable. Offering an amazing way to visualize all the hues in existence, it was exhaustingly created by american artist tauba auerbach in collaboration with daniel e. The model is defined by electronic systems such as computer and television screens, video cameras, and scanners, as well as digital photography, and the theory originates from basic human perceptions of color. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every. New yorkbased, tauba auerbach has created the awesome rgb colorspace atlas. Printed book attempts to display every rgb color combination. Comprised of 8 x 8 x 8inch hardback cubes, the rgb colorspace atlas represents the rgb color scheme in a pagebypage medium. The binding of the book was codesigned by tauba and another artist.
Chaos, a new book by artist tauba auerbach produced in conjunction with her exhibition here nowand everywhere at new yorks deitch projects, explores the shadowy gap between order and disorder, pattern and randomness. Collages tauba auerbach rgb color space color picker objet dart art plastique blog american artists installation art how cool is this. Artist tauba auerbach created this dazzling 8 x 8 x 8 hardbound book with the help of daniel e. In exploring the nature of color, language, logic, and dimensionality, her work in abstraction probes the limits of visual and spatial perception. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas tabua auerbach s rgb colorspace atlas is a beautiful 8 x 8 x 8inch hard back book illustrating the rgb gradient in the pagebypage format using digital offset printing paper. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach book design. Digital offset print on paper, case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges. The rgb colorspace atlas is an 8x8x8 book created, interestingly, by standard digital offset printing, with a case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges.
Tauba auerbach has created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes, in a project entitled the rgb colorspace atlas. With many of your books, you reveal visual experiences that are typically unavailable in normal dimensional space or time. Moma, popup books, and a game of numbers math munch. Rgb colorspace atlas and mantis shrimp linnea west. 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. 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. Rgb colorspace atlas was included in tauba auerbachs solo exhibition tetrachromat, wiels contemporary art centre, brussels, belgium, march 22june 2, 20. See more ideas about data map, tauba auerbach, city map drawing. The title of the article tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color imaginable is misleading. The result is a reference volume of a sort to designers, maps of possible choices for painters, or for some, perhaps, just a pagebased piece.
Metropolis ms erik wysocan talked with her in her new york studio. 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. But artist tauba auerbach has inflated that flat field in to the rgb colorspace atlas. Rgb colorspace atlas, volume 2 2011as part of ecstatic alphabets, moma has a set tauba auerbachs colorful books on view. Tauba auerbachs rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color. And rightfully so, for it is a complete, encyclopedic, display of the rgb gradient in a pagebypage index. Razers new rgb gaming keyboards are spill resistant and. Rgb colorspace atlas by tauba auerbach artist tauba auerbach, who lives and works in new york and san francisco, created a beautiful 8 x. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. 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. 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. This colorspace atlas has every color in the visible spectrum. The books attempt to illustrate the rgb color shceme in a pagebypage format. Rgb colorspace atlas, a cubed book depicting every color.
For you designers, think of it as a threedimensional version of a photoshop color picker. Sadness wallpaper, sad wallpaper, love sad wallpapers. The atlas of color enables users to say exactly what they mean. Tauba auerbach has created an incredible atlas of every. Projective instrument, paula cooper gallery, new york, ny 19 216 2014 tauba auerbach. Tauba auerbach is an american artist with a story to tell without words or even what we normally think of as illustrations. Not for the colorblind rgb colorspace atlas by tauba. Kelm assisted by leah hughes at the wide awake garage.
Tauba auerbach is a visual artist who creates paintings, sculptures, photographs, books, instruments and weavings. Rgb colorspace atlas this is a simulation of one volume in a set of three books by tauba auerbach each volume is 3632 pages. The rgb colorspace atlas illustratesthe rgb gradient in the pagebypage format using digital offset printing paper. A color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three or four values or color components.
Rgb colorspace atlas is a collection of 8x8x8inch casebound books that present viewers with the rgb red, green, blue color model. The 8 x 8 x 8 inch cube contains every color imaginable within its airbrushed cloth cover, pages and page edges. Made in conjunction with taubas moma exhibition ecstatic alphabetsheaps of. Am i the only one who has a problem with the idea of representing an additive color space using subtractive. Tauba auerbachs mindblowing rgb colorspace atlas the fader. See more ideas about tauba auerbach, lou fashion and gradient image. But i was misremembering and thinking of her work titled 2,3, 2011, rgb color atlas 2011 and their color play. The 3,632 page hardback measures 8x8x8 it is gigantic and must have been a serious achievement for independent book binder daniel e. Rgb colorspace atlas this is a simulation of one volume. The rgb colorspace atlas depicts every color imaginable. Artist tauba auerbach one of my absolute favorite contemporary artists made a book that contains every possible color tauba calls it the rgb colorspace atlas.
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