Richard Tuttle — Grey Walls Work

Camden Arts Centre, London / Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin / Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 1996–1997
Exhibition catalogue / artist’s book
21 × 21 cm
60 pp.
Die-cut green card wrappers
Red underlayer visible through oval cut-outs
Colour illustrations throughout
Includes interview with Richard Tuttle
Designed by the artist

Condition: Fine. Clean copy with only very minor handling to covers. Binding tight, interior bright.

Published on the occasion of Richard Tuttle’s touring exhibition Grey Walls Work, shown at Camden Arts Centre, London; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The publication documents works made between 1994 and 1996, with Tuttle’s title pointing directly to the condition of display: these works ask to be seen against grey walls.

The catalogue is not only a record of the exhibition. Designed by Tuttle, it operates as a small constructed object. The green die-cut cover, repeated oval apertures, and red layer beneath turn the book into a surface of concealment and disclosure. Image, page, wall, and support are kept in play.

Tuttle’s practice has long occupied a position between drawing, sculpture, craft, and provisional architecture. Here that position enters the book form. A catalogue becomes a portable exhibition condition: modest, precise, tactile, and slightly unstable.

Artist-designed exhibition catalogue.
A book as support, surface, and placement.

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