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# Tauba Auerbach Sculpts a Pop-Up Book for Grownups
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/tauba-auerbach-sculpts-a-pop-up-book-for-grownups/
- Published: 2016-05-05T18:06:26.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:26.000Z
- Description: In her sculptures and installations, California-born artist Tauba Auerbach often plays with the flux state between two and three dimensions. Her latest project continues in this vein: It's an oversized pop-up book.
- Author: Carey Dunne
- Tags: In Brief, Printed Matter, Tauba Auerbach, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

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Tauba Auerbach, “\[2,3\]” (2016) (GIF by the author for Hyperallergic)

In her sculptures and installations, California-born artist Tauba Auerbach often plays with the flux state between two and three dimensions. Her latest project continues in this vein: It’s an oversized pop-up book called [*\[2,3\]*](http://www.taubaauerbach.com/view.php?id=289&alt=720&ref=hyperallergic.com) that contains six die-cut, geometric paper sculptures. Its pages unfold to reveal a gold-and-white ziggurat, a pyramid composed of nesting triangles, a sphere of intersecting paper circles, and elegant latticed arches. Director [Sam Fleischner](http://www.howfollowswhat.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com) filmed the book’s dramatic unboxing.

Auerbach isn’t the first to turn the pop-up book, usually found on children’s shelves, into an objet d’art. It’s standard practice in the world of origami and book arts. In 1967, Andy Warhol collaborated with Random House to create [a pop-up book](http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2013/08/14/andy-warhols-index-the-1967-pop-up-book-for-hipsters/comment-page-1/?ref=hyperallergic.com) featuring paper spoofs of his famous artworks, including cardboard can of Hunt’s tomato paste. Designer [Marion Bataille](http://www.marionbataille.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) made [a pop-up book for typography nerds](http://flavorwire.com/300854/incredible-pop-up-books-for-grown-ups?ref=hyperallergic.com); German artist [Johann Volkmer](http://www.faltjahr2010.de/?ref=hyperallergic.com) makes minimal, elegant pop-up wall calendars. *\[2,3\]* is also also reminiscent of [*Pop-Up Op Art,*](http://www.fastcodesign.com/3040486/a-pop-up-book-for-grownups?ref=hyperallergic.com) a recent book that translated Op art pioneer Viktor Vasarely’s dizzying works into collapsible paper sculptures. But more than these examples, *\[2,3\]* looks like something you’d want to leave open as a shape-shifting display instead of keeping it collapsed on a bookshelf.

![Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 1.16](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-05-at-1-16.jpg)

Tauba Auerbach, ‘\[2,3\]’ (2016) (All screen shots by the author for Hyperallergic)

![Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 1.17](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-05-at-1-17.jpg)

Tauba Auerbach, ‘\[2,3\]’ (2016)

Published by New York-based art book press [Printed Matter](https://www.printedmatter.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), *\[*[*2,3\]*](http://www.taubaauerbach.com/view.php?id=289&alt=720&ref=hyperallergic.com) is available in a signed and numbered edition of 1,000, plus 100 proofs. **\[UPDATE: Printed Matter has notified us that the edition is sold out.\]**