Richard Tuttle リチャード・タトル 数 Kazu, 2024, acrylic, spray paint, pine wood, wire, nail, screws h.59.3 x w.15.4 x d.19.0 cm
Photo by Kenji Takahashi, ©Richard Tuttle, Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery
On view: Richard Tuttle “San, Shi, Go” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyobashi
Richard Tuttle, now 83 years old, has built a career spanning some 60 years and is one of the most influential contemporary artists working today.
Currently living and working in New York and New Mexico, Tuttle’s early representative works include Cloth Piece, where a cut up canvas is displayed on the wall like a dismantled painting, and Wire Piece composed of wires, their shadows, and drawn lines. His free mode of artistic expression that transcends genres of drawing, painting, and sculpture has been a constant source of inspiration for the art scene, exerting a considerable influence on the next generation.
New works in this exhibition articulate various thought processes about numbers, concepts, colors, and the invisible, expressed through a lighthearted, rich worldview using everyday materials such as wood, paper, cloth, wire, plastic, and styrofoam.
“With numbers, the West writes “one” with a vertical line, and the East with a horizontal line. When young, I was happy to learn this, even though asking, why are these methods opposite? Now I can ask, beg and plead with the world, how do I write “one?”
“There are various colors that interpenetrate number and concept. They are striations laid down by something that must have something to do with the structure that holds concepts apart from things.” *
This exhibition promises us the pleasure of spending time in the company of his work, and of vicariously experiencing the discovery of everything unexpected and interesting in each and every moment of this world.
*From an email and text by Richard Tuttle on the occasion of this exhibition
Now on view until Saturday, May 17, 2025
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY KYOBASHI
TODA BUILDING 3F, 1-7-1, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0031 Japan
Piramide Bldg. 4F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Open: 11:00 – 19:00
Closed: Sun, Mon, and public holidays
Admission: Free
For more details about the exhibit, visit the Tomio Koyama Gallery website.
Read the poem that Tuttle contributed for this exhibition from the link above!
