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[2,3]

Item date(s): 2010

Tauba Auerbach  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 525 x 420 x 115mm
Collation: Six separate volumes
Binding: Each volume bound in different coloured fabric. Slipcase
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #250/1000

Type: Pop-up

Place publication: New York
Publisher: Printed Matter, Inc
ISBN: 978-0-89439-052-4
Exhibition 2019

Additional notes:
Six coloured cards(contained in a blue slipcase) which when unfolded reveal a pop-up:

Pyramid

Sphere

Cubearc

Möbius

Gem

Ziggurat

"[2,3]" is the mathematical term for the closed interval between two and three. Each of these objects animates the transition between two and three dimension.

The colophon is on a green card lodged in a packet inside the slipcase.

Bookseller's entry: AUERBACH, TAUBA. TAUBA AUERBACH: 2, 3

AUERBACH, Tauba. [2, 3]. Six separate volumes, each illustrated with one cut-out pop-up figure. Folio, 527 x 419 mm. Each volume bound in different brightly-coloured boards. Laid into in publisher's blue cloth slipcase. New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 2011.

A new, innovative and original artist's book. This cutting-edge experiment in bookmaking...

Item nr. 157672 from Ursus Books.

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts, JGCBA, WAM. 26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/13157









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