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18/11/2010

Richard Tuttle

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin

Richard Tuttle 'Triumphs’ at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is a site specific exhibition and collaboration with the artist. Responding to the local as encountered in the early Georgian architecture of the main gallery Charelmont House (designed by Sir William Chambers in 1765) and to the Hugh Lane collection (established in 1908), Richard Tuttle will install a Polysemous multipart horizontal installation in the galley’s new wing (2006). In works such as the shaped plywood wall reliefs of the 1990’s to recent handmade printed paper assemblages, Richard Tuttle will configure his artworks in new forms that have emblematic meaning to his interest the Augustan era and its polysemous aesthetics.

Neo classicism, the governance of imperial states and the power of the visual to silence language is revealed in 'Triumphs’. Richard Tuttle’s reputation as one of the leading post minimalist artists rests on his persistently unconstrained art practice using improvisational working procedures and non-traditional materials. The multiplicity of concepts is successfully realised through work that uses a paucity of means but which has a robust and enriching impact on the viewer.

An overlapping 'Triumph’ curated by Barbara Dawson and Michael Dempsey, illuminates the main exhibition. It begins with work from the mid 60s through to the present, and includes a new installation of Village V (2004) in Lord Charlemont’s salon.

This exhibition begins with work from the mid-1960s and continues through to the present. The main exhibition, selected by the artist, reveals a significant concentration on recent drawings and a context is provided by our selection of earlier work—an overlapping triumph which further illuminates Tuttle's processes and the current installation. Included is Village V (2004) in Lord Charlemont's salon, which was first exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York, in 2004 as part of Tuttle's exhibition It's a Room for 3 People. Village V is one of five installations that set out to examine the canon of Drawing: Village I (Motion), Village II (What cannot be seen), Village III (Light Blue), Village IV (Naming), and Village V (Shadow).

Although most of Tuttle’s prolific artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice.

An artist of seminal importance in the international world, Richard Tuttle has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; ICA Philadelphia; Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; and the Museu Serralvesin, Porto, Portugal. SFMoMA organized a 2005 Tuttle retrospective. This will be the first museum show by Richard Tuttle in Ireland and we are honoured that he has agreed to work with the Hugh Lane curatorial team.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by Thomas McEvilley, Richard Tuttle, Barbara Dawson and Michael Dempsey, which is available in the Gallery bookshop.

Image: Village V, 2004 Installation in gallery. © Richard Tuttle, courtesy Sperone Westwater

Press contact:
Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions t: +353 1 222 5552 e: mdempsey.hughlane@dublincity.ie
Logan Sisley, Exhibitions Curator t: +353 1 222 5562 e: logan.sisley@dublincity.ie

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Charlemont House Parnell Square North Dublin 1, Ireland
Hours:
Tuesday to Thursday 10.00am– 6.00pm
Friday & Saturday 10.00am–5.00pm
Sunday 11.00am–5.00pm
Closed Mondays
Admission free

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