Multimedia Collection
Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist
DVD
32 min
2005
N6537 .T8 .R53 2005 DVD
Richard Tuttle's extraordinary work has exuded vitality and energy for over four decades - a remarkable feat, particularly since his art is so modest, vulnerable and daringly simplified. An elegant iconclast who never hisitates to take risks, Tuttle uses frail and transitory materials such as plywood, tissue, wire, cloth - even shadows - to create entire worlds of thought, while challenging the 'super-size' aesthetic with his minor-scaled works. From his early years as assistant at the famed Betty Parsons Gallery in New York to his major retrospective launched in San Francisco in Summer 2005, Tuttle's commitment to the small, the anti-heroic, - the barely visible - has inspired generations of younger artists, giving license to follow one's own personal vision. Filmed in New Mexico, New York, San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles, this engaging production takes viewers into the studio and life of a most distinctive artist, while exploring issues of commitment, communication and controversy, the relationship between size and value, the language of materials and learning how to "see" art.
Distributed by Twelve Films (www.artcity123.com)
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