“Richard Tuttle: Separation” at Modern Art in London is a solo exhibition of new work by the renowned American sculptor Richard Tuttle – Tuttle’s third solo show with Modern Art. The exhibition comprises four new bodies of work made over the course of the past year by the influential New York-based post-minimalist powerhouse.Tuttle came to prominence in the 1960s with his groundbreaking works that fused sculpture, painting, poetry, and drawing. Tuttle’s delicate and playful approach defies definition or categorization but is driven by his interest in exploring shape, colour, texture, language, scale, space, volume, spatial relationships, and line.The works in “Richard Tuttle: Separation” exemplify Tuttle’s talent for using everyday materials such as cloth, paper, rope, and plywood to create masterfully constructed three-dimensional forms and wonderfully expressive two-dimensional multimedia works on canvas that are at once fragile, poetic, spiritual, and playful, and which challenge the conventions of contemporary art practice.In his statement for the 2008 Pulitzer Arts Foundation exhibition “Water,” which engaged the prevalence of water within the Pulitzer building, Tuttle says that an artwork “is actually an accounting of all four elements, though no artist, no matter how hard they try, can bring them in perfect balance. They are arranged subjectively, finally.” “Richard Tuttle: Separation” follows the UK’s largest ever survey of Tuttle’s work at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2014 which surveyed five decades of his career and included a large-scale sculptural commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Titled “I Don’t Know The Weave of Textile Language,” the Tate commission focuses on the particular importance of textiles in his work.Richard Tuttle’s work is the subject of three concurrent solo exhibitions: “Wire Pieces,” at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, USA, until 12 September; “Both/And Richard Tuttle Print and Cloth,” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA, until summer; and “A room within the collection and a drawing cabinet,” at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, until 30 June.Richard Tuttle, Separation, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 5 - 27 June 2015
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