Richard Tuttle Exhibition
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At Tomio Koyama Gallery
Media: Sculpture, Art Party
With a career spanning over 40 years, while he has been described as Post-Minimalist, this artist has tended to take his own approach to drawing, installation, painting, and sculpture, so that all of his activities have expanded the definition of the arts. From the mid-1960s, he used common items: paper, scrap wood and metal, plastic, wire, and so on to create sculptures. Until that time, these items tended to be overlooked and their ability to play a major role was largely denied, but through his exquisite work, they became liberated objects. At a time when the size and the mass of materials were used to overpower spaces, he focused on creating peculiar, sometimes even improvised works. The fundamental shape of his early freestanding simple forms were his drawings transferred to canvas, wood, and wire to become three-dimensional objects. He has diversified his materials over time and the forms have also become more complicated, but when we, the viewers, look at his works, we can see that the basic materials or natural items, with power that exceeds the boundaries of our world, continue to be used.
In pieces where both stoicism and abundance coexist, there is always an acute sense of adventure. As the arts tackle the issues that have emerged following the 20th century, this artist continues to search for his independent style, to question the concepts of composition and frame, explore the balance between line and volume, and merge the mystical with the material. His varied works include rows of small objects, each having a different form, or an installation in a corner. With objects hanging in your line of sight, the space will shift from the ordinary to a type of sacred space. In the words of the artist himself, "art is reality-based, not imitation based."
Opening Reception: June 30th, 18:00-20:00
Schedule
From 2007-06-30 To 2007-07-28
Artist(s)
Fee
Free
Venue Hours
From 12:00 To 19:00
Closed on Mondays, Sundays, Holidays
Access
7 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo lines or 9 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on Hanzomon Line.
Address
1-3-2-7F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024
Phone: 03-3642-4090 Fax: 03-3551-2615
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Reviews
Nice showing from the poet of the ephemeral. Looking at Tuttle's work can be like viewing an archive of fleeting moments. He seems at times like a butterfly collector - capturing and fixing the fugitive whim in permanence, and indeed his ability to give the appearance of effortlessness, as if these things just kind of happened on their own, can be remarkable.
The show consists of quite a few small pieces of similar size spaced around the wall at regular intervals, in two separate rooms. One room is lit with a rather strange purplish glow, kind of like as if lit with the grow-lights used to grow indoor plants. In fact one of the works in that room somewhat resembles a pot leaf. The outline of the 'leaf' is made of folded sandpaper, with clumps of sawdust spray-painted green inside the folds. But like a rorschach test, inferences drawn from Tuttle's work can reveal more about the viewer than the work itself.
The lines between intention and chance, suggestion and speculation, significance and insignificance, are all highly blurred, but often seem to point in the direction of the sublime in the most vernacular of materials.
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Richard Tuttle Exhibition</a>
Venue: Tomio Koyama Gallery
Schedule: From 2007-06-30 To 2007-07-28
Address: 1-3-2-7F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024
Phone: 03-3642-4090 Fax: 03-3551-2615
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