'Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know or The Weave of Textile Language' opens at Tate Modern
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Wednesday, November 13, 2024


'Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know or The Weave of Textile Language' opens at Tate Modern
Richard Tuttle, I Don't Know . The Weave of Textile Language. 14 October 2014 - 6 April 2015. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. Photo: ©Andrew Dunkley, Tate Photography.



LONDON.- The UK’s largest ever survey of the renowned American sculptor and poet Richard Tuttle takes place in London this October. It comprises a major exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery surveying five decades of his career, a large-scale sculptural commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and a new publication. Entitled I Don’t Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language., this unique project has been specially devised by the artist and focuses on the particular importance of textiles in his work.

Richard Tuttle (b 1941) came to prominence in the 1960s, combining sculpture, painting, poetry and drawing. He has become revered for his delicate and playful approach, often using such humble, everyday materials as cloth, paper, rope and plywood. For this project, Tuttle has taken as his starting point one of the unsung heroes of everyday life: textiles.

Textiles are commonly associated with craft and fashion, yet woven canvas lies behind many of the world’s most acclaimed works of art and textiles are of increasing interest to artists today. I Don’t Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language. investigates the importance of this material throughout history, across Tuttle’s remarkable body of work and into the latest developments in his practice.

Tate Modern presents a newly commissioned sculpture in its iconic Turbine Hall from 14 October 2014 to 6 April 2015. Principally constructed of fabric, it is the largest work ever created by the artist, measuring over twelve metres in height. It brings together a group of specially-made fabrics, each of which combines natural and man-made fibres to create different textures in bright colours. These are suspended from the ceiling as a sculptural form, contrasting with the solid industrial architecture of the Turbine Hall, to create a huge volume of joyous colour and fluidity.

A new book has been published as part of this project, drawing on Tuttle’s knowledge as a longstanding collector of textiles from around the world. It includes contributions by the artist and new essays by Magnus af Petersen, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery and Achim Borchardt-Hume, Head of Exhibitions, Tate Modern. The publication brings together photographs of Tuttle’s personal collection of textiles, images of works from the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, and documentation of the sculpture at Tate Modern.

Richard Tuttle was born in New Jersey in 1941, and now lives and works between Maine, New Mexico and New York. His work is held in major private and public collections around the world and recent retrospectives have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

I Don’t Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language is curated by Magnus af Petersens, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery and Achim Borchardt-Hume, Head of Exhibitions, Tate Modern with Poppy Bowers, Assistant Curator, Whitechapel Gallery and Hansi Momodu-Gordon, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern.

The publication is designed by Mark Thomson and is published by Tate Publishing in association with the Whitechapel Gallery. Price £24.99.










Today's News

October 14, 2014

'Hans Memling: A Flemish Renaissance' opens at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome

'Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know or The Weave of Textile Language' opens at Tate Modern

Toledo Museum of Art to return 1,000-year- old bronze Ganesha sculpture to India

Willem De Kooning's Clamdigger to lead Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

Exhibition brings together rarely seen works of the 50s-70s by Castellani, Judd, and Stella

Luxembourg & Dayan presents an exhibition of post-war conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti's i Colori series

Mazzoleni Art opens London gallery with exhibition of Post-war Italian masters

'From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason' opens at the Morris Museum of Art

First solo exhibition of Alice Neel's work at Victoria Miro's Mayfair gallery opens

Koller Zurich to offer impressive figures from Tibet, fine artworks from China and India

International scholarly symposium features some of the world's foremost authorities in art history

Richard Saltoun Gallery exhibits Helen Chadwick's seminal series 'Wreaths to Pleasure'

Bonhams announces the sale of the Gentling Collection of important Pre-Columbian art

'Evermore: The Persistence of Poe' on view at the Grolier Club

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Doha achieves record prices for 13 artists

Galleria Caiati & Gallo explores the vibrant intensity of sculpture from 16th to 19th centuries

First exhibition by American artist Nate Lowman in Massimo De Carlo's new Mayfair outpost opens

White hot at Sotheby's: Sotheby's Frieze Week Auctions

Marian Goodman opens inaugural exhibition at London gallery space with recent works by Gerhard Richter

Pace London opens a collective exhibition of works by three artists

Exhibition of new work by Howard Hodgkin opens at Alan Cristea Gallery

New body of work by German artist Jonas Burgert on view at Blain/Southern

Spink China breaks records for Middle East material

National Portrait Gallery unveils newly commissioned portrait of Baroness Boothroyd




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful