A lecture by Richard Tuttle
dal 27/2/2003 al 28/2/2003
Segnalato da
27/2/2003
A lecture by Richard Tuttle
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
Over the last four decades, Richard Tuttle has challenged the boundaries and frameworks for making and experiencing art while amplifying our understanding and perception of time and space. In works that since the 1960s have defied conventional categories of painting, drawing and sculpture and since the 1980s have exploded in a profusion of form, color and scale, Tuttle has broken down the barriers separating a work from its surrounding space.
Over the last four decades, Richard Tuttle has challenged the boundaries and frameworks for making and experiencing art while amplifying our understanding and perception of time and space. In works that since the 1960s have defied conventional categories of painting, drawing and sculpture and since the 1980s have exploded in a profusion of form, color and scale, Tuttle has broken down the barriers separating a work from its surrounding space.
His unusually diverse range of materials is a kind of metaphor of the artist's odyssey. Sperone Westwater of ArtForum writes 'A Tuttle is not really a particular kind of object; it's the concretized aura of an attitude - an autistic, almost infuriating indifference to many of the things other artists (and critics, and viewers) care passionately about, like the dramas of originality versus historicism, or the intersecting definitions of painting and sculpture... Along with its humble roots in quotidian handicrafts and tinkering, his work has grander ones in Dada (especially Schwitters and Arp), Suprematism, and even in the Impressionists' rejection of finish as it was understood by the academy of their day.' While he is not interested in mimicking what he sees, he regards all art as a form of representation. In this sense, he is a very traditional artist asking the time-honored question, 'How do we apprehend and represent our experience in the world?' Tuttle has had recent solo exhibitions in Porto, Portugal (2002), Santiago de Compstela, Spain (2002), Dusseldorf, Germany (2002), Tokyo, Japan (2002), Philadelphia, PA (2002), and New York City, NY (2001).
February 28, 2003
7:30 pm
Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; SFAI students free. No advance tickets are available for SFAI Lecture Hall events.
Image:
Richard Tuttle, "New Mexico, New York, B, #4," 1998, acrylic on fir plywood, 20.25 x 24.25 in.
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