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Richard Tuttle


5 x 5 x 5 from September 14th to October 27th 2007.

It is with great pleasure that Galleri Nicolai Wallner presents 5 x 5 x 5, an exhibition with works by American artist Richard Tuttle (born 1941).

Tuttle is well known for delicate and intimate works. Using frail and transitory materials such as plywood, tissue, wire, cloth, and even shadows he offers a distinct sense of aesthetics that challenges our view of art. The works are undeniably ambiguous and deftly defy any attempt at categorization as painting, sculpture or drawing. However modest in means or complex in form the works seem to change our perception of reality and they point to a way of seeing that is fundamentally different. Tuttle's work encompasses order and chaos, surface and depth and above all expresses a vital and creative freedom.

5 x 5 x 5 consists of five rooms, five series of work, and five different lights. Tuttle has worked meticulously with the setting of the gallery offering alternatives to the traditional concept of an exhibition space. Each of the works is installed on its own wall with a white plinth in front giving two types of light; a light bulb and a candle. A subtle interplay arises when the light of the plinth weaves together with the coloured neon tubes in the ceiling, the natural light from the outside and the reflections sliding of the walls. Colours are brought to life and evoke a sense of the mystical in art that has otherwise been lost in the cold radiance of the white cube.

In 2005 Tuttle had a major retrospective spanning his 40-year career at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, Des Moines Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, and ended at Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles in 2007. Tuttle is widely recognized as one of the most seminal artists of his time inspiring a whole younger generation with the particular offhand beauty of his works.

We are happy to welcome you in the gallery.

With kind regards,

Galleri Nicolai Wallner