Calder/Tuttle:Tentative

by Alexander Calder (Artist), Richard Tuttle (Artist), Alexander SC Rower (Contributor)

Tuttle dialogues with the modernist abstractionist through new drawing and sculpture series Richard Tuttle (born 1941) has long been interested in questions of perception surrounding line and scale, which he explores in his compositions and constructions using nontraditional mediums, materials and methods. In Calder/ , the artist looks to the oeuvre of the great Alexander Calder (1898–1976) for inspiration and creative dialogue.
This book presents a series of Tuttle’s drawings, titled Calder Corrected , and sculptures, titled Black Light , exhibited at Kordansky Gallery in response to a range of works by Calder that he selected and installed at Pace in Los Angeles. With new text and a poem by Tuttle and a poem by Alexander S.C. Rower, founder of the Calder Foundation, Calder/ offers a fresh perspective on familiar favorites.

264 pages, Hardcover

Published August 1, 2023

About the author

American sculptor Alexander Calder created the mobile in Paris in the early 1930s and also produced immobile abstract sculptures, known as stabiles.

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