Touch, Don’t Look: What Is the Object?, Now on Display at the Bard Graduate Center, Reviewed in the New York Times
Set of three glasses with fish, Taiwan, possibly 1960s. Plastic. Collection of Richard Tuttle. Photograph: © Bruce M. White/Christina Clare Ewald
What Is the Object? defies conventional exhibition etiquette, in that viewers are expected to ignore the old adage and instead touch, don’t look. Richard Tuttle, “a collector of miscellaneous objects that catch his fancy,” has created in What Is the Object? something that is “an expansion of Tuttle’s long-standing practice of juxtaposing incongruous elements in a way that highlights the precariousness of beauty and meaning,” writes Will Heinrich for the New York Times. Presented alongside these curios are several of Tuttle’s collages, as well as the work of other artists and artisans. The central experience of the exhibition is disarming, writes Heinrich, perhaps even radically so. “I had become so used to meeting art through my eyes alone that I had forgotten what an impoverished way that is to experience the world,” he writes.
Post Date: 04-05-2022
Post Date: 04-05-2022