Richard Tuttle

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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One of the master artists of our time, Richard Tuttle joins to talk about his 60+ year career that has revolutionized the landscape of temporary art.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Every artist, you know, wants more than anything else to be recognized.
0:12.0	But once it's recognized, you go so quickly into the fat head syndrome.
0:21.0	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:26.0	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,
0:34.0	how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:38.0	On this episode, artist Richard Tuttle talks about what he's up to as he enters his ninth decade.
0:44.0	Life is its only word, but how do you live successfully your entire life?
0:51.0	Richard Tuttle is one of the master artists of our time.
0:59.0	His work has revolutionized the landscape of contemporary art and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, bookmaking, printmaking, installation, and poetry.
1:12.0	Over the course of his 60 plus year career, he has constantly challenged the constraints of material, medium, and method.
1:22.0	He draws beauty out of humble materials and creates art that simultaneously exists in the present moment,
1:30.0	reflects the fragility of the world and allows for individual experiences of perception.
1:37.0	His work has been exhibited in hundreds of galleries and museums all over the world and is included in important collections everywhere.
1:47.0	He is represented by Pace Gallery, and an exhibit of his objects is currently on display at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
1:56.0	He's been called a conceptual artist and a post-minimalist artist, but the labels aren't nearly as interesting as the art itself.
2:06.0	Often minimal, innately witty, rigorously intelligent, and always deeply moving.
2:14.0	Richard Tuttle, welcome to Design Matters is an absolute honor to be talking with you today.
2:20.0	Thank you, Debbie. Thank you. Thank you. You lift my spirits.
2:24.0	Thank you. You lift mine. Richard, is it true that you believe that there are only two kinds of artists in the world.
2:33.0	Those that can use the color green and those who can't.
2:40.0	That's fun. I guess we should start with a kind of base where you could speak about a New York artist.
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