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[Richard Tuttle: Staying Contemporary]

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The show is called "26" because

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I have very consciously created a spinal column

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of my New York exhibitions.

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We have a reference--

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an archival reference--

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to an artist's development.

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That being said, I'm also very committed

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to the idea of making an art that

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stays contemporary.

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The actual artwork is a combination

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of the kinds of things that only happen once

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and the kinds of things that happen always.

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Like the piece on the wall right here

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is a piece that's meant to be finished

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at the time of exhibit.

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But, actually, it's composed of a paper element

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which was done before.

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But the painting-on-the-wall part

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had to be made subsequently.

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It captures the kind of experience

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that cannot be repeated.

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At the time, the general idea of achieving art

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was to find your image--

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done over and over again,

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used and used and used until it was exhausted.

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It was so much about coming to the end of things.

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I was 22.

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I was interested in things beginning.

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I love materials on the one hand,

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and I'm not interested in materials in the other.

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How can somebody love materials

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to the degree I do

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and be absolutely not interested in materials?

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And people talk about,

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"Oh, Richard, you know, uses stuff that can
be thrown away,"

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and all that.

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But, really what...

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That's my solution for sustaining them,

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because, yeah, I love a piece of tissue paper,

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and I know the world doesn't.

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There's making art,

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and then there's the art of making art.

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If this, in any way, is directed to the young artist,

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I want to say, you know,

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spend your time thinking about the art of making art.

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Making pictures is a tool for life.

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Life is so much more important than art,

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but then art's importance

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comes when it's a tool for life--

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you know, when it makes life more available for us.

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I can say, as a person,

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I simply need a good picture.