• Cover of Richard Tuttle, Warm Brown, 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, c. 1990s, showing a close-up photograph of a metallic reflective surface — the cover of the catalogue itself — with the title RICHARD TUTTLE / WARM BROWN, 1–67 / AND MESA PIECES printed diagonally in large orange sans-serif capitals, and a single metal screw pin visible at lower left.
  • nterior page 62 from Richard Tuttle, Warm Brown 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, c. 1990s, showing a colour reproduction of an untitled work comprising two overlapping pieces of torn and cut cardboard — a larger tan corrugated sheet and a smaller pale yellow piece — pinned to a white wall, with a small red mark and a drip of white paint visible on the surface.
  • Interior page 66 from Richard Tuttle, Warm Brown 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, c. 1990s, showing a colour reproduction of an untitled work comprising a square black-painted board with a white checkerboard pattern at left, a pink painted form resembling a flattened bow or lips at centre, a small blue painted square at upper right, and a small ochre square at lower centre, mounted on a white wall with visible metal pins.
  • Interior page 46 from Richard Tuttle, Warm Brown, 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, c. 1990s, showing a colour reproduction of an untitled Mesa Pieces work comprising a rectangular board painted pale blue with a dark brown painted border, on which two organic green amoeba-like forms each containing a dark circular void are mounted, pinned to a white wall.
  • Reverse Reverse of Richard Tuttle, Warm Brown, 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, c. 1990s, showing a plain metallic dark grey-brown reflective surface with no text or imagery, a faint horizontal highlight visible near the top edge.
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Richard Tuttle — Warm Brown, 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, 1995

Richard Tuttle — Warm Brown, 1–67 and Mesa Pieces, Kärntner Landesgalerie, 1995

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Softcover exhibition catalogue, 29 × 21 cm, 136 pages, colour illustrations throughout. Good vintage condition: light handling wear, minor edge rubbing, and gentle age toning consistent with use and storage.

Richard Tuttle occupies a singular position in postwar American art. Emerging in New York in the late 1960s, he developed a language that rejected the heroic scale of Minimalism while retaining its economy of means. Working with paper, wire, cloth, cardboard, found materials, and modest gestures, Tuttle transformed seemingly insignificant forms into highly attentive encounters with space, perception, and language.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, this substantial catalogue documents the Warm Brown and Mesa Pieces bodies of work — an important period in which Tuttle pushed further into fragile constructions, asymmetrical forms, and his distinctive use of humble materials. The reproductions reveal works that appear almost provisional: painted cardboard, torn edges, pinned surfaces, and irregular geometries that resist easy classification as painting, sculpture, or drawing.

What makes this publication particularly compelling today is that it records a moment before Tuttle’s position became fully institutionalised. The catalogue captures works that remain surprisingly fresh and difficult, standing apart from the spectacle-driven tendencies that increasingly defined contemporary art during the same period. The physical modesty of the works contrasts with the sophistication of their visual thinking.

As an artefact, the book functions as more than exhibition documentation. It preserves a body of work whose material delicacy often exceeds what reproduction can fully communicate. For researchers, collectors, and artists, it remains one of the more substantial records of Tuttle’s ongoing investigation into scale, touch, and the expressive potential of seemingly negligible forms.

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