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Richard Tuttle’s Visit to the Akron Art Museumby Ellen Rudolph, Curator of Exhibitions |
Richard Tuttle’s Visit to the Akron Art Museum
World-renowned artist Richard Tuttle took time out of his busy schedule during a recent visit to Kent State University to come to the Akron Art Museum and advise us on the framing of drawings by Tuttle that the museum received as part of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States gift. Tuttle not only shared fascinating insights into his artistic processes and philosophies, but he also offered inside scoop on the Vogels’ collecting approach and passion for art. Of Tuttle’s lovely and poetic Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings, the artist explained that “art is an exercise in energy,” and that the series of drawings follow musical compositions. In terms of looking at his art, he encourages “close looking” while also citing art historian Richard Offner’s declaration that “there are no words for the art experience.”
As for the Vogels, they believe that you can learn more from looking at less important artists than you can from only looking at masterpieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Akron Art Museum will exhibit its Vogel art in summer 2011. For more information on the Vogel Fifty Works for Fifty States program, see http://vogel5050.org/
