Künstlerbuch | Artists‘ book: Tauba Auerbach. Alphabetized Bible, 2006

„The intention of my work is to formally and conceptually break language down into its tiniest essential units, and apply the unique properties of the system to the system itself, subjecting it to its own idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies in remarkable patterns.“ (Tauba Auerbach)

Tauba Auerbach, Alphabetized Bible 2006 Laser printed pages, cloth bound book, gold foil 8 x 6 x 1.5 inches closed (20.3 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm closed)

Tauba Auerbach, Alphabetized Bible 2006 Laser printed pages, cloth bound book, gold foil 8 x 6 x 1.5 inches closed (20.3 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm closed)

Tauba Auerbach, Alphabetized Bible 2006 Laser printed pages, cloth bound book, gold foil 8 x 6 x 1.5 inches closed (20.3 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm closed)

The Alphabetized Bible investigates the idea that any piece of writing, no matter its intellectual weight, is nothing more than a collection of letters.

Auerbach’s book reorders and presents all the characters in the King James Bible in alphabetical groupings, showing capital and lowercase instances in the order in which they appear in the original text. Some letters and sequences of letters appear more frequently than others, in some cases hundreds of times more than their counterparts. (source: SFMOMA)

Tauba Auerbach. Alphabetized Bible, 2006

• Laser printed pages, cloth bound book, gold foil
• Size | 20.3 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm closed (8 x 6 x 1.5 inches)
• Edition of 8

find more about Tauba Auerbach on her Website