Richard Tuttle Interview: Artists Are Like Clouds

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An emotional interview with the award winning post minimalist Richard Tuttle, known for his subtle, intimate works: "Artists they're from nature, they come out of nature, they're like the clouds that just happen."

Being an artist is not like a disease, and it's not something, which can be cured via psychoanalysis either. Artists are a part of nature, like clouds that just happen, Tuttle explains. For Richard Tuttle personally art has always been his life, something he could not live without. Tuttle also explains that art is a human invention, a system which produces freedom, and which is necessary for keeping society healthy.

The interview is as subtle and intimate as Tuttles work -- the artist invites us in for a glimpse of his childhood pain. Most artists have terrible childhoods, and would die without art, Tuttle says. He was brought up by three women, his aunt and grandmother helped his mother, who wasn't able to take care of him on her own. His father didn't understand him. Most artists grown up without the understanding of their families, Tuttle says: "They try to make you like they are."

Tuttle also tells us how he learned never to trust teachers, and to always trust his own beliefs first of all. Most of us are conditioned by our surroundings as we grow up, the wisdom of society stamps out the inner life, as we learn how to operate in the world. But the artist's job is to explore the invisible world of nature and emotions.

Richard Dean Tuttle (b. 1941) is an American post minimalist artist who's works span a range of media, from sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and artist's books to installation and furniture. Tuttle is often referred to as an "artist's artist" and, as such, his work has been influential to a generation of contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith, Jim Hodges, David Hammons, Michael Oman-Reagan, Tom Friedman, and Jessica Stockholder. He was a very close friend of minimalist painter Agnes Martin until her death in 2004.

Richard Tuttle was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

Editing by Kamilla Bruus

Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner

Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014

Supported by Nordea-fonden
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" art is a system to produce freedom"... so beautifully said ... " that is why we invented art"...

JaneGriffo
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Art is an accounting of the visible world, and equally an accounting of the invisible world! Love that phrase!

MarionWebber
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He was my favorite person I ever met. I never got star struck with the movie stars or musicians I met when I worked at the met museum but I was with Richard Tuttle.

MelodyInTheChaos
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This was really really good. Sometimes I listen to other artists talk and it's pretty clear we have our own language. I'm thankful for that. 

ROBYN_ONEIL
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I love this guys wisdom and i'm so thankful he is sharing his personal moments.

liljakruczynski
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Cet homme est touchant.
Il est devenu artiste pour exister.
Il est juste dans tout çe qu'il dit.
L'amour d'une mère est le point de départ.
Quand il est défaillant, cela fait de l'enfant un créatif.
Mas cela mérite un long commentaire, ce qui n'est pas l'endroit

EnvoyeeSpeciale-eybx
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Second time to watch this video and still blown away by his expressions. Should be shown in schools for any discipline. Thank you Louisiana Channel.

JhnCltrane
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Wow. Favorite YouTube segment so far. What a brilliant mind.

giaj
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We create from the wound at the core - that's why art touches people the way it does. Art also saves us from self destruction - it is a form of self preservation.

amandavanheerden
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Considering how difficult a childhood Tuttle had, his work does not largely dwell much on obvious narratives or figurative elements. He is concerned with formalist issues, an artist who knows the language of art for the sake of art, yet does not preclude his work having a whimsical nature. I have much enjoyed his large exhibitions, one in particular at the SF Museum of Modern Art.

rrfirefly
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I think not so much contradiction as it is the willingness to view things from both sides, thinking out loud, most Artists are the opposite of "Know it Alls"  we do not know everything but are always trying to learn more and to expose our ideas and thoughts out in the open allowing them to be examined

michaeldion
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as a 16 year old artist i totally relate to this accept losing a mother. FINALLY someone gets it

lebohangmofokeng
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Thank you for this! Really special insight that resonated with me. A real human. Namaste.

virst
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Artists are completely in their own universe. It’s better try not to understand them. Just appreciate them.

Rayxnyc
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Lucky to have three mothers who loved him...

ShakilaTaranumMaan
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Imagine if this guy didn't succeed ..he'd look twice the age ..maybe on skid row ..maybe dead . It's so important to nurture artists .. you're not buying art ..you're creating a life

vatchesolakian
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Artists are mostly revolutionaries... they bring new visions to the world breaking old paradigms of "seeing" the world...

JaneGriffo
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i didn't get him at first but then i did
and that is that

glistenhorns
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I would never have guessed that this artists work was about the things he discussed, interesting, I related to his description of the artist.

hughiedavies
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The distinction between feelings and emotions escaped me. Anybody?

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