Tuttle, Richard

Richard Tuttle was born in 1941 in , New Jersey , 35 km northwest of Manhattan . After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut ( 1963 ), he was awarded the Bachelor of Arts. In 1965 he moved to New York .

Richard Tuttle is married to the poetess of Chinese descent (白 萱 华, p. 1947) ^[4] .

In recent years, the artist divides his time between a workshop in New York and estates in , New Mexico (85 km from Santa Fe ) and Mount Desert Island , Maine .

The credo of the artist is based on the consistent rejection of any illusionist imitation of nature. His program:

Make objects that look the way they are ^[5] .

Original text

To make objects which look like themselves.

In 1965, Tuttle created a series of sculptures, which are soft cubes cut out of paper. Then, under the influence of the works of Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly presented in the Parsons Gallery, Tuttle performs a series of small monochrome painted wood reliefs. In the future, in Tuttle's work, the desire to focus on the environment, the environment, the conditions in which the works are exhibited is noticeable:

• in a series of canvases stretched over multifaceted stretchers and painted in muted pastel colors ( 1967 );
• in white paper polygons ( 1970 ) dematerializing and barely distinguishable against the background of white walls;
• in circulation (since the beginning of the 1970s ) to trivial materials: wire, ropes, plywood scraps, which he mounts on the wall; and it often happens that the shadows cast by these “irregular constructions” capture the imagination of the audience more than the objects themselves.

Such practices allow us to consider the career of Richard Tuttle, as an integral part of the post-minimalist movement of the late 60s - early 70s . Among a group of innovative artists not connected by any common manifestos ( Frank Stella , Eva Hesse , Bruce Nauman , Joel Shapiro ), Tuttle opposed the dictatorship of the outdated principles of Western art, such as “lifelike”, “constancy”, “certainty” .

Richard Tuttle's works were presented at two key exhibitions for the entire post-minimalism movement , held in 1969 :

1. Anti-Illusion: Processes / Materials (Whitney Museum, New York )
2. “Live in your head: When relationships become form” ( Kunsthalle , Bern ; curated by Harald Zeeman ) ^[6]

In 1972, 1977 and 1987, Tuttle participated in the exhibitions of the Kassel documenta , and in 1976, 1997 and 2001, in the Venice Biennale .

• 1975 : Whitney Museum , New York
• 1979 : Stedelek Museum , Amsterdam , Netherlands
• 1980 : English House Lange Museum , Krefeld , Germany
• 2014 - 2015 : English Whitechapel Gallery , London
• 2014 - 2015 : Tate Modern , London ^{[7] [8]}

• Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
• Whitney Museum , New York
• National Gallery of Art , Washington DC
• Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington
• English Institute of Contemporary Art , Philadelphia
• Winterthur Museum of Art (Kunstmuseum Winterthur), Switzerland
• Center Pompidou , Paris
• Tate Modern , London
• Stedelek Museum , Amsterdam

• Borchardt-Hume, Achim; Petersens, Magnus af. Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know. The Weave of Textile Language . - London: Tate Publishing, 2015 .-- 204 p. - ISBN 1849763194 .
• Tuttle, Richard. Richard Tuttle: Making Silver . - Bergen Kunsthall, 2015 .-- 88 p. - ISBN 8293101202 .
• Martin, Agnes; Tuttle, Richard. Agnes Martin & Richard Tuttle: Religion of Love . - Köln: Walther König, 2015 .-- 36 pages p. - ISBN 3863356497 .
• Dercon, Chris; Homann, Joachim. Richard Tuttle: Prints / Rotenhan, Christina von. - JRP, 2014 .-- 144 p. - ISBN 303764365X .
• Tuttle, Richard. The Art of Richard Tuttle . - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005 .-- 385 p. - ISBN 0918471753 .
• Grynsztein, Madeleine. The Art of Richard Tuttle . - First Edition. - San Francisco: DAP, 2005 .-- 392 p. - ISBN 1933045000 .
• Tuttle, Richard. Tony Smith: Paintings And Sculpture, 1960-1965. - Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002 .-- ISBN 0966076990 .
• Lomax, Jenni; Hutchinson, John; Tuttle, Richard; Nesbitt, Paul. Richard Tuttle: Gray Walls Work . - Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1996. - 60 p. - ISBN 1900470020 .
• Harris Susan Cannon; Day, Holliday T .; Waller, Brett. THE POETRY OF FORM: Richard Tuttle Drawings from The Vogel Collection . - Indiana University Press, 1994 .-- 92 p. - ISBN 9080096822 .
• Tuttle, Richard. Portland Works 1976 . - First Edition. - Cologne: Galerie Karsten Greve, 1988.
• Tucker, Marcia. Richard Tuttle: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 12-November 16, 1975, Otis Art Institute Gallery of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, January 16-February 29, 1976 . - Catalog. - New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975 .-- 92 p. - ISBN 0874270200 .

• The article was written based on a biographical note by Kristie Jayne, placed in the Whitney Museum of American Art album (3rd edition, 1991, p. 208, 250–251).

• Voice of Richard Tuttle: the artist reads his poems November 23, 2013 / “Zinc Bar” , Greenwich Village , New York / mp3 / 28 min.
• On November 4, 2013, Richard Tuttle gave a lecture on the use of banal materials in art (English) mp3 / 1 hour 12 min.
• About the 15-ton 24-meter “construction” of colored wool hanging from the ceiling of the turbine hall of the London Tate Modern Gallery (2014-2015) on the website of the BBC Corporation
• Richard Tuttle Video Interview : “Artists Look Like Passing Clouds” (eng.) / 13 min.
• VIDEO: Richard Tuttle talks about his artistic principles (filmed at the residence of the English Institute of Getty , Los Angeles ) (eng.) / 3 min.
• Margarita Shklyarevskaya. "Richard Tuttle Anti-Illusions." A large article in Russian in the Russian Bazaar newspaper published in Brooklyn (Russian Bazaar, No. 49/502, December 2005).
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