Inside It Looks Like It's Going To Be (Part I)
Exhibitions & Events
The Phillips’s latest Intersections Contemporary Art Project, Richard Tuttle: It Looks Like It’s Going To Be, has opened on the second floor of the Phillips House galleries. In the extensive exhibition—his “most ambitious,” according to the artist—Tuttle has paired a 41-verse poem that he wrote with 41 artworks that he created for the installation. The exhibition also includes 16 works on paper that he selected from the permanent collection.
![Richard Tuttle with his work Just in Case You want to Order (2018). Photo: Rhiannon Newman](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_1360px_/public/featured_images/tuttle-13.jpg?itok=MglzYBky)
Richard Tuttle with his work Just in case You want to order (2018). Photo: Rhiannon Newman
The artist explains: “There’s this point where the artist—and that includes poets and choreographers or novelists—cuts themself off from their audience. The kind of work I do, it’s intense and it’s concentrated, I can actually become unmindful that this is about communication, this is about an audience connecting. But it’s also—a friend of mine, a very wise friend of mine, spoke in terms of the lecture form and said that, ‘If the lecturer does not make contact with the audience, it’s not a lecture.’ I think that’s the same in art where the artist loses contact with the audience. It’s a tightrope, it’s a walking an edge where if the audience is too much in the mind of the artist it becomes popularistic or loses strength. We’re talking about a sound bite situation and I very much—I fall in love with certain ideas and I turn those over in my head for brief periods of time.”
![Richard Tuttle: It Seems Like It's Going To Be installation view. Photo: Lee Stalsworth](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_1360px_/public/featured_images/Richard-Tuttle-Exhibition_03.jpg?itok=NoLW2Z8d)
Richard Tuttle: It Seems Like It's Going To Be installation view. Photo: Lee Stalsworth
![Richard Tuttle: It Seems Like It's Going To Be installation view. Photo: Lee Stalsworth](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_1360px_/public/featured_images/Richard-Tuttle-Exhibition_46.jpg?itok=cB6VU3xT)
Richard Tuttle: It Seems Like It's Going To Be installation view. Photo: Lee Stalsworth