BOOK: Calder/Tuttle-Tentative, David Kordansky Books

Over the last six decades, Richard Tuttle has become one of the most representative American artists of the postwar period, occupying interstitial positions between several genres, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and poetry. He consistently opens new possibilities for a variety of mediums and materials, demonstrating how traditional categories of artmaking can function as starting points for unhindered, open investigations into the functioning of perception and language. The book “Calder/Tuttle: Tentative” is a dynamic new publication that presents Richard Tuttle’s “Black Light” wall-based sculptures and “Calder Corrected” drawings which were on view at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles earlier this year. Tuttle’s exhibition was conceptualized in response to a range of works by Alexander Calder that were selected by Tuttle and installed concurrently at Pace Gallery, Los Angeles. The catalogue includes full color plates, installation views from both exhibitions, and two fold-out posters. It also features new texts by Tuttle, offering an intimate glimpse into his thinking about the creative dialogue between his and Calder’s works, as well as poems by Tuttle and Alexander S.C. Rower, founder and president of the Calder Foundation.-Dimitris Lempesis