Richard Tuttle: Replace the Abstract Picture Plane - Softcover

Gross, Jennifer R.; Haldemann, Matthias; Tuttle, Richard; Kunsthaus Zug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775790489 ISBN 13: 9783775790482

Publisher: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 2001

Synopsis

From 1996 to 1999, the American artist Richard Tuttle worked for the Kunsthaus Zug in an endeavour to provide its collection activities with a new orientation. He created four large works referenced to the space of the museum and its surroundings. Opposed to the usually fragile, predominantly small and ephemeral works by Tuttle, these tailor-made objects are astounding, contributing to a new definition of space within the architecture. The work Replace the Abstract Picture Plane IV consists of no less than 40 parts whose asymmetric arrangement on the first two floors of the southern wing answer to the spiral shape of the 1996 green 'snake' in the northern wing. The book, featuring this extensive pioneering project by an artist and a museum, was conceived by the artist himself, thus constituting a work of art in its own right.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag Gerd Hatje
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775790489
• ISBN 13: 9783775790482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Haldemann Matthias