Richard Tuttle: Reality & Illusion

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Art21 first featured artist Richard Tuttle in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Richard Tuttle is featured in the Art21 episode "Structures" along with fellow artists Roni Horn, Matthew Ritchie, and Fred Wilson. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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Two Survey Exhibitions, 30 Years Apart
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In 1975, Richard Tuttle had his first major museum survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art—a watershed moment both for the artist and the controversy the exhibition elicited over works of ephemeral materials in a style that few knew how to discuss or engage. Over 30 years later, we were able to film Richard Tuttle at the same museum as he installed works from the original exhibition in a new—a widely celebrated—touring retrospective of his life's work. Learn more about the touring exhibition (SFMoMA)

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Working with String
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In an interview with Bob Holman, Richard Tuttle describes the challenge curator Marcia Tucker presented to the artist about his work "Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself":

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Trompe-l'oeil
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Meaning "trick the eye," trompe-l'oeil is a technique for creating two-dimensional images that present the optical illusion of being three-dimensional objects.

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Richard Tuttle on Art & Life
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Channels: American ArtContemporary ArtDrawingSculpture
Artists: Richard Tuttle
Themes: Materials and ProcessPerception

Exclusive Episode #056: Artist Richard Tuttle installs the work "Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself" (1973) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.

Learn more about Richard Tuttle: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttle

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Sam Henriques and Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. Special Thanks: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

I think that the creativity in laying string on the floor is.... well lets just say that not everyone can lay string on the floor. It just takes some mad skills. I could probably take a box of yarn and dump it on the floor and call it art. Amazing.
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Submitted by s on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 13:17.

I think that was really creative to do that tiny sculpture.WOW!!!!!!! I loved how Richard Tuttle made that tiny sculpture out of string,I thought he was going to make it out of metal or plastic of some sort.But I was wrong, he made it out of string.

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00:00:48 You know if I were, I don’t know, a better artist or something I would have really tried these many, you know, hundreds of times.

00:00:59 Different strings and different situations and I didn't really want to know them too well.

00:01:14 A lot of my work is about not being able to do something well. You know, it tries to locate itself in a place where you know appreciation of craft is

00:01:26 and not necessarily part of the appreciation of the piece. I mean nobody could tell me how to do the craftsmanship that's in this piece. It comes really from inside.

00:01:51 One of the important things about these pieces is where the, where one string will cross another and in some cases they burn into the string underneath,

00:02:03 so that for all intensive purposes they form a film. In other cases they don’t and like in the last one,

00:02:12 the first one sinks in by weight and the second one burns staying on top.

00:02:26 So, the notion of it being an illusion is also explained in this kind of theme of overlapping.

00:02:41 And whether it’s a real overlap or it’s an illusion or whether the real looks like an illusion; I mean that’s my favorite part of this piece

00:02:52 and maybe that’s what the whole piece is about.

00:03:05 Because most of my work is non-illusionistic and so the illusion, if there is an illusion, is actually real.

00:03:16 But in these pieces it gets turned around and the fun, the real kind of yuk-yuk fun is when they,

00:03:24 they actually the real looks like kind of an illusion and also has a child-like quality, you know.

00:03:38 Okay, that's happy. Happy living together, I think.