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Post by WillNyc on May 5, 2012 20:50:51 GMT -8
I had a chance to see the opening as well.. as this was my first Tauba show.. meeting Nick Walker and Shepard Fairey today before that made my saturday! Both show was amazing anyone in NYC or visiting soon should really see both.
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Post by epicfai on May 6, 2012 13:26:33 GMT -8
they're not being shy with the prices either.
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Post by svenman on May 6, 2012 13:44:51 GMT -8
Thanks for the pics Scott. What are the long thin pieces?
Some wonderful looking work. Anyone know what the prices were?
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Post by prpr on May 6, 2012 13:58:21 GMT -8
the long thin pieces (shown above) were scans of prisms (= 'photographs'), not statics (although somewhat static-y).
she also had two long thin prism sculptures.
i overheard the show was sold out before the opening (& that was the response to questions on pricing).
so i am curious on epicfai's comment above.
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Post by mose on May 6, 2012 19:24:51 GMT -8
I had a chance to see the opening as well.. as this was my first Tauba show.. meeting Nick Walker and Shepard Fairey today before that made my saturday! Both show was amazing anyone in NYC or visiting soon should really see both. I'd also highly recommend that any Tauba fan hit MoMA's 3rd floor exhibition 'Ecstatic Alphabet'. There are about a dozen or so examples of her work including the RGB Colorspace Atlas works, two works from the whole alphabet from center out series, the whole alphabet, how to spell the alphabet, etc., etc. Overall, a nice presentation in an exhibition that I have to spend much more time with to appreciate fully. Initially, I do think the RGB books would have been better replaced with the alphabetized bible, and the remnants of pencil lines all over some of the works drove me mad(I do hate that as it renders the piece less successful up close), but I came away absolutely loving one piece in particular and appreciated how this exhibition acts as a counterpoint to the style shown currently at Paula Cooper, showcasing work of which one critic stated, "These works are far more interesting than the oversize trompe l’oeil fabric paintings and oversize moiré spots she has offered up in recent years."  side note, I was somewhat annoyed that the exhibition didn't feature any of Carl Andre's late 1950's to early 1970's typewriter-based visual poems. They had a couple of works that were close in style, but I would have loved to see a nice collection of Andre's versions. Will just have to wait until his retrospective at Dia:Beacon next year. |
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Post by mose on May 6, 2012 19:58:55 GMT -8
And while anyone is at MoMA, do yourself the favor and walk about three blocks over + 1 or so up and stop by Pace Gallery on 57th. The Robert Irwin show is just fantastic.
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Post by parklife2 on May 6, 2012 22:43:10 GMT -8
robert irwin might be my favorite artist.
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Post by mose on May 7, 2012 4:00:46 GMT -8
robert irwin might be my favorite artist. Then you would really love what was in this show. One light piece(nice to compare/contrast those with works of Flavin), two site-specific 'window interventions', four of what appeared to be triptychs, and one single piece(which was basically equivalent to the center panel of one of the triptychs). The single and triptychs had the magic Finish Fetish perfection. Surfaces you could just get lost in, like the greatest McCracken plank. The triptychs were also reminiscent of some late Barnett Newman works I've seen, with bold white sections flanking a center core of dark color. What got even better was spending time with that center color and discovering that it is not a monolithic whole. Within each dark core is a rectangular band of another color, what appeared to be either blue or very dark red. These bands would appear and recede depending on viewing location and interaction with the light in the gallery, which had a sum effect of making them appear almost like the best of Rothko's bands in how they 'vibrate'. All-in-all, NYC gets a great West Coast show, with the master(Irwin) melding Light & Space with Finish Fetish in a uniquely beautiful way. |
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Post by gamma888 on May 7, 2012 20:58:21 GMT -8
robert irwin might be my favorite artist. Then you would really love what was in this show. One light piece(nice to compare/contrast those with works of Flavin), two site-specific 'window interventions', four of what appeared to be triptychs, and one single piece(which was basically equivalent to the center panel of one of the triptychs). The single and triptychs had the magic Finish Fetish perfection. Surfaces you could just get lost in, like the greatest McCracken plank. The triptychs were also reminiscent of some late Barnett Newman works I've seen, with bold white sections flanking a center core of dark color. What got even better was spending time with that center color and discovering that it is not a monolithic whole. Within each dark core is a rectangular band of another color, what appeared to be either blue or very dark red. These bands would appear and recede depending on viewing location and interaction with the light in the gallery, which had a sum effect of making them appear almost like the best of Rothko's bands in how they 'vibrate'. All-in-all, NYC gets a great West Coast show, with the master(Irwin) melding Light & Space with Finish Fetish in a uniquely beautiful way. since we're discussing about light and space movement, one art installation that gave me a HUGE, profound impact was doug wheeler's installation at guggenheim museum bilbao in 2000 or 2001. it was a space where he manipulated the lighting, made the half space an oval sphere where corners, angles, and lines do not exist at all. i had to wear specialized bags to cover my shoes and walk into this all-white unique space. from there, you could literally walk on a cloud feeling top of the world OR feeling so lost simply because your mind couldn't locate any fixed object, space, or even your own shadow! finally, once i got to the end of the space, my feet started to pick up the floor leading to the wall in curved stance. it was quite a surreal experience that one MUST experience this. to this day, i still haven't found any art installation that struck me HARDER than wheeler's space installation... |
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Post by funkymonkey on May 8, 2012 4:43:08 GMT -8
since we're discussing about light and space movement, one art installation that gave me a HUGE, profound impact was doug wheeler's installation at guggenheim museum bilbao in 2000 or 2001. it was a space where he manipulated the lighting, made the half space an oval sphere where corners, angles, and lines do not exist at all. i had to wear specialized bags to cover my shoes and walk into this all-white unique space. from there, you could literally walk on a cloud feeling top of the world OR feeling so lost simply because your mind couldn't locate any fixed object, space, or even your own shadow! finally, once i got to the end of the space, my feet started to pick up the floor leading to the wall in curved stance. it was quite a surreal experience that one MUST experience this. to this day, i still haven't found any art installation that struck me HARDER than wheeler's space installation... Have you seen installations by James Turrell? He is pretty much categorized in the same movement as Doug Wheeler and a few others. His Wolfsburg project was mesmerizing. A retrospective of Turrell's works is in the work at Guggenheim. Check it out if you get a chance. |
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Post by prpr on May 9, 2012 9:50:49 GMT -8
I'd also highly recommend that any Tauba fan hit MoMA's 3rd floor exhibition 'Ecstatic Alphabet'. There are about a dozen or so examples of her work including the RGB Colorspace Atlas works, two works from the whole alphabet from center out series, the whole alphabet, how to spell the alphabet, etc., etc. Overall, a nice presentation in an exhibition that I have to spend much more time with to appreciate fully. Initially, I do think the RGB books would have been better replaced with the alphabetized bible, and the remnants of pencil lines all over some of the works drove me mad(I do hate that as it renders the piece less successful up close), but I came away absolutely loving one piece in particular and appreciated how this exhibition acts as a counterpoint to the style shown currently at Paula Cooper, showcasing work of which one critic stated, "These works are far more interesting than the oversize trompe l’oeil fabric paintings and oversize moiré spots she has offered up in recent years." i agree that the MoMA show is worth the trip and that Alphabetized Bible fit the show theme better. that said, the RGB colorspace works are magic, the highlight of the show for me, and since they will not sell them to mere mortals like myself, i really hope they end up at museums so they'll be on view to more public. for me, the folds, particularly the new ones at Paula Cooper (& from this thread, at MoCA) are similarly magical and hold much more interest than the language work (which are interesting, but not sublime). the crumples (which is what i'm guessing the above quote was on about) are also sublime (up close, the grid feels like a force field, a visual palatte cleanser). the MoMA show also has the float book from last summer (standard has images of the RGB colorspace, float, and other books here: www.standardoslo.no/en/artist/tauba_auerbach/works/page/2) |
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Post by harveyn on May 11, 2012 6:56:12 GMT -8
Whilst it is not the strongest image I have seen I am surprised it did not reach its lower estimate at $40k. Anybody on here get to see this one up close? I know there were no condition issues and just wondered what it looked like in person. Another Tauba piece making its way to PDP day Sale. The Whole Thing (Uppercase) estimate of $40-$60k. is this the piece you are referring to?  |
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Post by sport1 on May 11, 2012 8:40:16 GMT -8
After the strength of previous auctions im also very very surprised this piece didnt sell. Does anyone know where the bidding got to ?
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Post by mose on May 11, 2012 9:14:18 GMT -8
On first glance, this auction as a whole just did not do it today. Burn out? It's been a really long art week in NYC.
The piece was not the type of thing that people want to spend above-decorative money on. In addition, call me cynical, but there is no need to continue 'building' via noteable high prices at very public auctions with weak pieces. No one needs to draw attention to Tauba anymore. She has everyone's.
In addition, a bunch of new work, of her current 'signature style', has just satiated many potential bidders.
That being said, I now actually quite like this piece and it has grown on me since first seeing it.
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Post by juggernut3 on May 11, 2012 11:18:11 GMT -8
Quite agree with Mose's assessment... many lots didn't even sell: Aaron Young, Matthew Day Jackson, etc...
(disclaimer I'm not the one percent)
Personally I was burned out covering all that entire week of art. Also, I think people in NYC were burned out by 2 major fair weeks in one year let alone in just Spring (counting Armory).
Then also, people are traveling to Art HK and prepping for Basel Switzerland in June. I think there's too much art going around the previous 3 months and coming June. In a compact situation where you have 4 fairs of world class art/money then the smart collectors are holding their big money and galleries are holding their big guns for Basel & Art HK.
Back to the Tauba, I like the concept, but maybe it's a case of too many letters in one piece, it blocks out the nuances in other letters that may have shown through in a less dense word composition... Again just my personal subjective opinion. Sometimes less is more.
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Post by rosenblumari on May 11, 2012 18:39:51 GMT -8
After the strength of previous auctions im also very very surprised this piece didnt sell. Does anyone know where the bidding got to ? Maximum bid was 35k. |
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Post by mose on May 12, 2012 4:03:50 GMT -8
Yes, I believe it was a Mr. Chandelier who made the maximum bid. Or was it Mr. Rafter?
Seriously though, I didn't watch so I don't even know what they opened at. Would really expect it to sell privately via the auction house this week.
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Post by prpr on May 22, 2012 13:04:50 GMT -8
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Post by mose on May 22, 2012 16:11:10 GMT -8
just an FYI,. PdP has another binary Auerbach in their upcoming evening sale in London.
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Post by prpr on May 23, 2012 10:34:50 GMT -8
just an FYI,. PdP has another binary Auerbach in their upcoming evening sale in London. thanks. i see it in their highlights reel ( www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions.aspx?sn=UK010312), but they don't have it listed on the web yet (as least to my searching skills). |
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Post by fnord on Jun 11, 2012 6:08:51 GMT -8
I finally got to see her pieces at MOMA and was way more impressed than I thought I would be.
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Post by prpr on Jun 24, 2012 11:51:00 GMT -8
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Post by harveyn on Jun 28, 2012 10:18:32 GMT -8
just an FYI,. PdP has another binary Auerbach in their upcoming evening sale in London. thanks. i see it in their highlights reel ( www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions.aspx?sn=UK010312), but they don't have it listed on the web yet (as least to my searching skills). Hammered at £97.2k. |
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Post by parklife2 on Jun 28, 2012 10:19:36 GMT -8
that's over $140K. Nuts.
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Post by volvic on Jun 28, 2012 10:21:26 GMT -8
i don't normally swear but holy sh*t
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