CONSTELLATIONS I DREW IN NEVADA
MARTHA TUTTLE
LUCE GALLERY
Torino
dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020
A Torino, dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020, Luce Gallerypresenta la mostra “Constellations I drew in Nevada” di Martha Tuttle.
La personale riunisce lavori concepiti appositamente, che indagano la materia catturando sfumature effimere del tempo e della natura.
Come scrive l’artista americana nel suo statement, i dipinti sono emersi dai cieli notturni che ha disegnato durante una residenza nel Deserto del Great Basin. Nel periodo del 2019 trascorso nel Nevada rurale, non avendo accesso alla connessione Internet o alla linea telefonica, i cluster che ha osservato erano le costellazioni immaginando le stelle in relazione tra loro.
Tuttle sperimenta il limite tra pittura astratta e arte tessile unendo in composizioni geometriche strati di tessuti diversi, che colora con pigmenti naturali ottenuti da minerali. Su telai di legno di varie dimensioni, le combinazioni di lino traslucido e di lana di pecora, filata a mano da lei stessa, sembrano possedere una propria luminescenza, mentre la loro frammentazione conserva lo spazio per l’immaginazione.
Le opere alle pareti, che si riferiscono al cielo di notte, dialogano con il suolo desertico rappresentato dalle piccole sculture create con marmo di Carrara e pietre di vetro fatte realizzare a Murano.
Artist statement
“The paintings in Constellations I drew in Nevadaemerged from drawings I made of the night sky during an artist residency in the Great Basin Desert (in rural Nevada) in 2019. I did not have access to the internet or phone service, so the clusters I drew were stars I imagined to be in relation to one another, rather than mythological or historical groupings.
Everywhere in the Great Basin is a scattering of stone, of petrified wood, of bleached animal bones. The sculptures of stone and glass throughout this exhibition relate to the desert ground, the paintings to the night sky.
The following is a diary entry from that time:
August 29th, 2020, The Montello Foundation, Nevada
Quite an eventful night last night. A windstorm blew though this stretch of basin rattling the house and making a significant racket. The anxiety of the night made me quite sure it would blow the wildfires right to my door. But it the morning, everything was as it was.
This morning, virga, all around. I can’t remember- is sepulcher the smell of rain before it comes? I’ve been thinking a lot about beauty, what it is, how it translates into physical form. I feel most beautiful when I soften, let go of expectations, let go of the rigid boundary between myself and the world. The most beautiful things, I believe, can appear to be ugly with only a short twist of light. I think this is because they are a responsive to, intertwined with the world they breath in.
In the desert one’s boundaries dissolve. Loneliness is not so much of an issue because one becomes also dust, also light. Everything passes through you all the time. High altitude deserts near mountains- this is my home. How can I construct a life where I can always come back here?
Here, I confuse my heartbeat with the sound of an approaching truck. I collect rocks and they slip through my overladen hands- everywhere a treasure. The counters of mountains are like the curves and dips of a body- the grasses droop and leave semi-circle drawings when the wind blows them. A desert of brutality is not the desert that I have known.
Yesterday, I saw a square rainbow held in a pocket of a cloud. I made dye from juniper berries and an old mordant recipe using juniper needle ash. I sat with what I didn’t know. I drew constellations in the sky and looked for their counterparts in the holes dug by insects and animals in the ground. I find myself more and more trusting the land, listening to the wind. I rub sage between my hands and breath in. The words from John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charleyplay over and over again in my head- “the desert has mothered magical things”.
When I dream, I dream of people When I dream, I dream of people I have known.”
Martha Tuttle
Martha Tuttle(1989, Santa Fe, Nuovo Messico, Stati Uniti) vive e lavora a Brooklyn, New York. L’artista americana si è formata alla Yale School of Art. Nel 2017 è stata selezionata dallo Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program e nel 2019 ha partecipato alla Rauschenberg Residency. Il suo lavoro è presente nella collezione del Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) di New York. Attualmente, dal 15 luglio al 9 novembre 2020, nella mostra personale allo Storm King Art Center espone l’opera “A stone that thinks of Enceladus”, che ha realizzato nell’ambito del Outlooks program del museo outdoor nella Hudson Valley (New York).
La mostra è visibile anche on-line: www.lucegallery.com/video.php. Nel video l’artista introduce ai lavori esposti.
Constellations I drew in Nevada
Martha Tuttle
Luce Gallery
Torino, dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020
Largo Montebello 40
Orari: da martedì a venerdì, 15.30 - 19.30
+39 011 18890206
info@lucegallery.com
Instagram: @lucegallery
Facebook: Luce Gallery
Video delle mostre con introduzioni degli artisti: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Ufficio Stampa: THE KNACK STUDIO
Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com
+39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com
www.theknackstudio.com
Exhibition views, Constellations I drew in Nevada, Martha Tuttle’ solo show, Luce Gallery, Turin, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, A bit of light moves in the sky, 2019-20, wool, linen, graphite, quartz, glass, alabaster, chalcedony, overall dimension 223 x 237 cm, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, A bit of light moves in the sky, 2019-20, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Constellations I drew in Nevada I, 2020, angled view, detail, Carrara marble and Murano glass stones sculpture, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Constellations I drew in Nevada V, 2020, angled view, detail, Carrara marble and Murano glass stones sculpture, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Silence, 2020, diptych, wool, linen, silk, pigment, 40,5 x 30,5 cm each one, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, I love you so, I wrote in stone, 2020, wool, linen, silk, pigment, alabaster, 141.5 x 199.3 cm, variable dimensions, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, I love you so, I wrote in stone, 2020, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Windstorm, 2020, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Windstorm, 2020, wool, linen, pigment, aluminum coated slag, quartz, 130 x 249 cm, variable dimensions, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Basin, 2020, wool, linen, silk, pigment, 116.8 x 78.6 cm, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
CONSTELLATIONS I DREW IN NEVADA
MARTHA TUTTLE
LUCE GALLERY
Torino
dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020
A Torino, dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020, Luce Gallerypresenta la mostra “Constellations I drew in Nevada” di Martha Tuttle.
La personale riunisce lavori concepiti appositamente, che indagano la materia catturando sfumature effimere del tempo e della natura.
Come scrive l’artista americana nel suo statement, i dipinti sono emersi dai cieli notturni che ha disegnato durante una residenza nel Deserto del Great Basin. Nel periodo del 2019 trascorso nel Nevada rurale, non avendo accesso alla connessione Internet o alla linea telefonica, i cluster che ha osservato erano le costellazioni immaginando le stelle in relazione tra loro.
Tuttle sperimenta il limite tra pittura astratta e arte tessile unendo in composizioni geometriche strati di tessuti diversi, che colora con pigmenti naturali ottenuti da minerali. Su telai di legno di varie dimensioni, le combinazioni di lino traslucido e di lana di pecora, filata a mano da lei stessa, sembrano possedere una propria luminescenza, mentre la loro frammentazione conserva lo spazio per l’immaginazione.
Le opere alle pareti, che si riferiscono al cielo di notte, dialogano con il suolo desertico rappresentato dalle piccole sculture create con marmo di Carrara e pietre di vetro fatte realizzare a Murano.
Artist statement
“The paintings in Constellations I drew in Nevadaemerged from drawings I made of the night sky during an artist residency in the Great Basin Desert (in rural Nevada) in 2019. I did not have access to the internet or phone service, so the clusters I drew were stars I imagined to be in relation to one another, rather than mythological or historical groupings.
Everywhere in the Great Basin is a scattering of stone, of petrified wood, of bleached animal bones. The sculptures of stone and glass throughout this exhibition relate to the desert ground, the paintings to the night sky.
The following is a diary entry from that time:
August 29th, 2020, The Montello Foundation, Nevada
Quite an eventful night last night. A windstorm blew though this stretch of basin rattling the house and making a significant racket. The anxiety of the night made me quite sure it would blow the wildfires right to my door. But it the morning, everything was as it was.
This morning, virga, all around. I can’t remember- is sepulcher the smell of rain before it comes? I’ve been thinking a lot about beauty, what it is, how it translates into physical form. I feel most beautiful when I soften, let go of expectations, let go of the rigid boundary between myself and the world. The most beautiful things, I believe, can appear to be ugly with only a short twist of light. I think this is because they are a responsive to, intertwined with the world they breath in.
In the desert one’s boundaries dissolve. Loneliness is not so much of an issue because one becomes also dust, also light. Everything passes through you all the time. High altitude deserts near mountains- this is my home. How can I construct a life where I can always come back here?
Here, I confuse my heartbeat with the sound of an approaching truck. I collect rocks and they slip through my overladen hands- everywhere a treasure. The counters of mountains are like the curves and dips of a body- the grasses droop and leave semi-circle drawings when the wind blows them. A desert of brutality is not the desert that I have known.
Yesterday, I saw a square rainbow held in a pocket of a cloud. I made dye from juniper berries and an old mordant recipe using juniper needle ash. I sat with what I didn’t know. I drew constellations in the sky and looked for their counterparts in the holes dug by insects and animals in the ground. I find myself more and more trusting the land, listening to the wind. I rub sage between my hands and breath in. The words from John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charleyplay over and over again in my head- “the desert has mothered magical things”.
When I dream, I dream of people When I dream, I dream of people I have known.”
Martha Tuttle(1989, Santa Fe, Nuovo Messico, Stati Uniti) vive e lavora a Brooklyn, New York. L’artista americana si è formata alla Yale School of Art. Nel 2017 è stata selezionata dallo Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program e nel 2019 ha partecipato alla Rauschenberg Residency. Il suo lavoro è presente nella collezione del Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) di New York. Attualmente, dal 15 luglio al 9 novembre 2020, nella mostra personale allo Storm King Art Center espone l’opera “A stone that thinks of Enceladus”, che ha realizzato nell’ambito del Outlooks program del museo outdoor nella Hudson Valley (New York).
La mostra è visibile anche on-line: www.lucegallery.com/video.php. Nel video l’artista introduce ai lavori esposti.
Constellations I drew in Nevada
Martha Tuttle
Luce Gallery
Torino, dal 17 settembre al 24 ottobre 2020
Largo Montebello 40
Orari: da martedì a venerdì, 15.30 - 19.30
+39 011 18890206
info@lucegallery.com
Instagram: @lucegallery
Facebook: Luce Gallery
Video delle mostre con introduzioni degli artisti: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Ufficio Stampa: THE KNACK STUDIO
Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com
+39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com
www.theknackstudio.com
Exhibition views, Constellations I drew in Nevada, Martha Tuttle’ solo show, Luce Gallery, Turin, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, A bit of light moves in the sky, 2019-20, wool, linen, graphite, quartz, glass, alabaster, chalcedony, overall dimension 223 x 237 cm, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, A bit of light moves in the sky, 2019-20, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Constellations I drew in Nevada I, 2020, angled view, detail, Carrara marble and Murano glass stones sculpture, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Constellations I drew in Nevada V, 2020, angled view, detail, Carrara marble and Murano glass stones sculpture, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Silence, 2020, diptych, wool, linen, silk, pigment, 40,5 x 30,5 cm each one, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, I love you so, I wrote in stone, 2020, wool, linen, silk, pigment, alabaster, 141.5 x 199.3 cm, variable dimensions, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Windstorm, 2020, wool, linen, pigment, aluminum coated slag, quartz, 130 x 249 cm, variable dimensions, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, I love you so, I wrote in stone, 2020, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Windstorm, 2020, detail, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
Martha Tuttle, Basin, 2020, wool, linen, silk, pigment, 116.8 x 78.6 cm, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari
