Richard Tuttle / Craft
‘Say it! No ideas but in things.’ (William Carlos Williams ‘Paterson’ 1946) No ideas that can be separated, detached from things. No objects, no articles, just things, self-evident and incomprehensible, imbued with an important measure of undecidability. They are because they are art. Material and symbol, found and formed into the work, small and equipped with an internal structure, complex and highly differentiated.
‘Craft’ – Richard Tuttle gave this designation to the fifteen works of this exhibition.
The attempt to describe something that exists as a description of itself is a questionable endeavor. Nevertheless, a few attributes of these strange beings can be brought out and very near generalized. A role is played by color, also employed as material, blotches of color, spots of color, sometimes set on fine transparent networks. In this way, relicts of form, found objects are integrated and combined. Lines, connections, correspondences can be made out here and there. Each work constitutes a small dense center and is affixed on the wall at an exactly designated height with a bracket on a circular painted surface. Depth becomes tangible, volume is able to extract permeability from the solid wall. Space, spatiality is not demarcated or enclosed but originates through expansion – it is quasi turned inside out.
Venturing an association with insects in certain works is risky. It involves the concentrated potential of these works that occupy a vital point in a force field and that claim and activate their context, their environment. The mobility here is a matter relating to the viewer. He will frequently shift his point of view before an individual work and in the exhibition in order to reach the margins with this situation.
Entrusting the fragile thing with worth and validity without charging it with finality and insularity is something achieved by the art of Richard Tuttle. The seam, the zones that come into contact, the points of transition that are butted up against and incorporated – these open up and alter the scale of the work. The contradictoriness and presumptuousness of a one-to-one art and the pathos of art that supposes to convey borrowed contents and insights are not to be found here. Yet insights are readily available, here and now.
A high-level aspiration is a precondition of this artistic exercise. Access via patterns of thought and vision is denied and recognizability by means of repetition is essentially precluded. Each group of works wants to be a place for the new, for something never before seen. Even just the strange and remarkable form of the new that must not yield to arbitrariness forces the artist to seek discipline and precision. In each individual case, it is the success that is capable of relieving the intensive effort of its weight, yet without fully dispelling this seeming contradiction.
Installation views
Installation view room 4
Installation view room 1
Installation view room 1
Installation view room 1
Installation view room 2
Installation view room 2
Installation view room 3
Installation view room 3
Installation view room 4
Installation view room 4
Installation view room 4
Publications and Editions by
Richard Tuttle with the
Annemarie Verna Gallery
Publications and Editions by
Richard Tuttle with the
Annemarie Verna Gallery
Publications and Editions by
Richard Tuttle with the
Annemarie Verna Gallery
Publications and Editions by Richard Tuttle with the Annemarie Verna Gallery
Publications and Editions by
Richard Tuttle with the
Annemarie Verna Gallery
Works
Craft #4
2008
51.5 x 36 x 15 cm
cardboard, wiremesh, wire, styrofoam, silicone, paper-mâché, pencil and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #4
2008
51.5 x 36 x 15 cm
cardboard, wiremesh, wire, styrofoam, silicone, paper-mâché, pencil and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #1
2008
41.5 x 36 x 15.5 cm
aluminium foile, wiremesh, paper-mâché and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #1
2008
41.5 x 36 x 15.5 cm
aluminium foile, wiremesh, paper-mâché and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #6
2008
51.5 x 36 x 16 cm
soft tissue, paper, red string, tape, silicone, white glue and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #6
2008
51.5 x 36 x 16 cm
soft tissue, paper, red string, tape, silicone, white glue and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #3
2008
44 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, aluminium foile, paper-mâché and acrylic paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #3
2008
44 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, aluminium foile, paper-mâché and acrylic paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #14
2008
46 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, wire, cardboard, plastic and wood painted with silver-enemal paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #14
2008
46 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, wire, cardboard, plastic and wood painted with silver-enemal paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #10
2008
51.5 x 36 x 20 cm
cardboard, paper-mâché, glue, wiremesh, cotton, wire and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #10
2008
51.5 x 36 x 20 cm
cardboard, paper-mâché, glue, wiremesh, cotton, wire and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #5
2008
38.5 x 36 x 12 cm
wire, seaweedplaster, acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #5
2008
38.5 x 36 x 12 cm
wire, seaweedplaster, acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #16
2008
57 x 36 x 19 cm
wiremesh, wire, foam core, painted paper-mâché mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #16
2008
57 x 36 x 19 cm
wiremesh, wire, foam core, painted paper-mâché mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #11
2008
51.5 x 36 x 14 cm
cardboard, paper, wire, wood, staple, silicone, tape, plastic and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #11
2008
51.5 x 36 x 14 cm
cardboard, paper, wire, wood, staple, silicone, tape, plastic and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #8
2008
51.5 x 36 x 18 cm
styrofoam, aluminium foile, bubble wrap, wood and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #8
2008
51.5 x 36 x 18 cm
styrofoam, aluminium foile, bubble wrap, wood and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #2
2008
47 x 36 x 15 cm
cotton, shoelace, wiremesh, paper-mâché and paper clip mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #2
2008
47 x 36 x 15 cm
cotton, shoelace, wiremesh, paper-mâché and paper clip mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #7
2008
44.5 x 36 x 11.5 cm
painted cardboard, wiremesh, paper, plastic, strings and acrylic varnish mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #7
2008
44.5 x 36 x 11.5 cm
painted carboard, wiremesh, paper, plastic, strings and acrylic varnish mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #13
2008
61 x 36 x 18.5 cm
styrofoam, wood, wire, cardboard and acrylic paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #13
2008
61 x 36 x 18.5 cm
styrofoam, wood, wire, cardboard and acrylic paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #15
2008
43.5 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, wire and acrylic paint mounted with a nail on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #15
2007 – 2008
43.5 x 36 x 14 cm
wiremesh, wire and acrylic paint mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #25
2008
37 x 36 x 13 cm
acrylic paint, foamcore board, paper-mâché mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
Craft #25
2008
37 x 36 x 13 cm
acrylic paint, foamcore board, paper-mâché mounted on painted cardboard circle on wood on black cardboard circle
New
Exhibition
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) and Will Insley (1929–2011)
March 6 to April 26, 2024
New publications
James Bishop
James Bishop
Publisher: ER Publishing, Edited by Molly Warnock
Joseph Egan
Joseph Egan and Anton Himstedt: Common Ground
Publisher: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Ulrike Growe
Exhibitions / Insight
INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.
Joseph Egan, Ptolemäus: Die Welt im Griff? Antike Kartographie und zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunsthaus Grenchen
3. März bis 26. Mai 2024
Dan Flavin, Widmungen aus Licht, Kunstmuseum Basel
2. März bis 18. August 2024
Rita McBride, Momentum,
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY,
July 1, 2023 to January 2025
Fred Sandback, Kurt Büsser ermöglicht... Erich Buchholz und Fred Sandback, Museum Wiesbaden
19. Januar bis 14. April 2024
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033
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