Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle, born 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey, lives and works in New York. Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, and intimate works. In the mid-1960s, Tuttle began to create eccentrically shaped painted wood reliefs, followed by ideograms made of galvanized tin, and unstretched, shaped canvases dyed in offbeat colors that fall squarely within the postminimalist tradition. As his work evolved, it increasingly pursued a radical reduction of composition elements. By the beginning of the 1980s, Tuttle's objects took on a profusion of materials, shapes, colors, volumes, and scales. His works in the 1990s marked a return to smaller-sized work that nevertheless commands attention, followed by discrete bodies of low-relief wall-bound pieces that integrate painting, sculpture, and drawing, challenging concepts of line, surface, color, space, and the frame.
Richard Tuttle Editions
Onoma
2001/2004
Wall object. Cast bronze, brass screw, 9.5 x 11 x 6 cm (3¾ x 4¼ x 2¼ in), in wooden box with hanging template. Edition of 15, with a signed and numbered certificate.
A sculptural archetype that is mounted on the wall at its narrow rear edge, against all aesthetic and static expectations. The visible screw in the middle indicates this unusual installation form.
EUR 6,500
Homesick as a Nail
1998
From Sequences
One drypoint etching on Somerset White Rag paper and one silkscreen, printed in five colors on acetate on both sides, hand-colored additions. The two sheets can be viewed separately or overlapping. Each print 40 x 50 cm (15¾ x 19¾ in), set signed and numbered on etching. Edition of 60.
Tuttle's work is composed of fragile beauty assembled and transformed from the experience of everyday life. Always experimenting, in these prints, Tuttle manipulated the process of silkscreen by using guided blasts of water directly on the screen to form the imagery of the mylar overlay. As with his works in general, Tuttle continues to investigate the perceptive and cognitive boundaries of the visual field.
EUR 1,500
