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"Method and madness can work in tandem and even be transportive." A deep review of 'Tauba Auerbach — S v Z' — on view @sfmoma — is up now @nytimes⁠ ⁠ We are proud to have published the "remarkable catalog cocreated with the designer David Reinfurt," @tausifnoor writes; "it features essays by the curators and the art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson — all of it printed in a custom-designed font based on the artist’s own handwriting."⁠ ⁠ We also appreciate this: "Since 2009, Auerbach — whose pronouns are they/them — has sustained a rigorous drive for investigating both scientific and spiritual concepts, drawing equal inspiration from the precision of mathematical proofs, the intuitive features of reiki (a form of energy healing), qi gong (a gentle system of movement) and the inherent entropy of the cosmos. Consequently, Auerbach doesn’t stick to one medium, favoring instead an eclectic mix of painting, photography, design, music, sculpture and typography. Combining the curiosity of a novice with the nimbleness of an expert, Auerbach offers with each project a truly refreshing contribution to contemporary art — namely, the conviction that the world is still full of wonder."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ @tau_au #taubaauerbach #taubaauerbachsvz @david_reinfurt https://www.instagram.com/p/CZSGB3dJyNy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Highly anticipated 'Tauba Auerbach — S v Z' opens TODAY @sfmoma !!⁠ ⁠ We are proud to have published the exhibition catalog (which is also very much an artist's book).⁠ ⁠ As in all things Auerbach, this book is also an experiment, fitting neatly into the artist's practice as a book maker and inveterate question-asker. Beginning with the title—in which the "v" does not stand for "versus," but instead calls upon the mathematic symbol for "and/or"—and extending to the deeply satisfying custom-marbled black-and-white edges of the book block, this is a volume to be reckoned with slowly and with a very open mind. Created by the artist and David Reinfurt, who designed a new typeface based on Auerbach's iconic, back-slanting handwriting, it is filled with material, spatial and temporal ideas, structures, reflections, problems and solutions. For example, in the Folds, Auerbach attempts to conjure nothing less than four-dimensional space. "The Fold paintings are my effort to construct a portal through which to summon—or at least imagine—this inaccessible hyper-spatial territory," they are quoted. "My hope is that if these paintings can successfully efface the boundary between two-and three-dimensionality, then by analogy they imply the possibility of eroding the boundary between three-dimensional space and beyond. Even if it remains physically impossible to experience four-dimensional space, I believe we can use this 'logic' to approach or inhabit it in our minds." ⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ @tau_au #taubaauerbach #taubaauerbachsvz @david_reinfurt #svz https://www.instagram.com/p/CXoJ7ZyrlAR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Extended Object" (2018) is reproduced from 'Tauba Auerbach — S v Z' — published to accompany the exhibition opening Saturday, December 18 at @sfmoma ⁠, ⁠ ⁠ Reviewing the book for @hyperallergic Megan Liberty writes, "Much like her bookworks, Auerbach’s catalogue 'S v Z' deserves to be examined as a sculptural object before we unfold its cover and consider its contents."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ @tau_au #taubaauerbach #taubaauerbachsvz @david_reinfurt #svz https://www.instagram.com/p/CXlv2efF9fO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Mudra Z" (2016) is reproduced from 'Tauba Auerbach — S v Z' — published to accompany the exhibition opening Saturday, December 18 at @sfmoma ⁠ ⁠ @artforum calls the catalog, "An extraordinary book-object ... Featuring 256 typefaces crafted by the patient, exacting designer David Reinfurt, the 'S v Z' publication is obsessively Auerbachian ... Regardless of pandemic-related delays in mounting the physical exhibition (it was originally slated to open in 2020), the book will endure as a truly entheogenic object in keeping with Auerbach’s art: a manifestation of precise practices that nonetheless open us to the woolly edges of what consciousness can reveal."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ @tau_au #taubaauerbach #taubaauerbachsvz @david_reinfurt #svz https://www.instagram.com/p/CXldXs0LrAS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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'Tauba Auerbach — S v Z' opens @sfmoma December 18, and people are READY! We are proud to have co-published the superb exhibition catalog, designed by the artist and @david_reinfurt⁠ ⁠ In his @artinamerica review of the exhibition, @alexanderprovan writes: "For the past two decades, Tauba Auerbach has sought universal structures and signs amid the polarization and breakdowns in communication. Charting the connections in paintings, prints, sculptures, publications, musical instruments, timekeeping devices, custom software, typeface specimens and a decommissioned fireboat, Auerbach has come to be known as a restless thinker and protean maker whose province is the entirety of human knowledge…⁠ ⁠ In fact, the potency—and popularity—of the work has to do with the combination of an elaborate armature and a screen-primed aesthetic, which, ironically, is captured in the catalogue for 'S v Z': the paintings, prints, and sculptures float on cool, gray backgrounds, looking as unabashedly seductive as they are labored and—in every sense of the word—deep."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @tau_au #taubaauerbach #taubaauerbachsvz https://www.instagram.com/p/CXeN_XdJw7w/?utm_medium=tumblr