David Kordansky Gallery hosted an art reception for “Calder/Tuttle:Tentative,” on January 21, 2023. This exhibition takes place in conjunction with another (with the same name) which also opened at Pace Gallery. CLICK HERE for info on that exhibition. You can view the artwork at the Davi Kordansky Gallery through February 25, 2023.

“Calder/Tuttle: Tentative” is an exhibition featuring work by Richard Tuttle inspired by the seminal American artist Alexander Calder. Concurrently, Pace Gallery, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, will present an exhibition of early Calder works curated by Tuttle.

Calder/Tuttle:Tentative comprises several parts. At David Kordansky Gallery, Tuttle presents a series of wall-based sculptures entitled Black Light and a group of works on paper entitled Calder Corrected. Informed by an ongoing engagement with Calder’s work, aesthetic philosophy, and observational temperament, both series find Tuttle exploring a range of phenomena that are among the fundamental features of visual art: the visual and physical experience of color, the perception of geometry and mass, and the associative communications between abstract and natural forms. The works are not so much meditations on Calder as they are responses to—and from—the contexts in which Calder’s project emerged. In this sense, Tuttle employs his own artistic vocabulary to refresh the contemporary take on Calder’s, shedding clarifying light not only on the abiding presence of modernist abstraction in art today, but on timeless facets of art’s presence in human lives.

On view: Saturday, January 21, 2023 – February 25, 2023

What: “Calder/Tuttle: Tentative”
Where: David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., LA, 90019
Website: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com