44th Wire Piece
Richard Tuttle
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Date:1972 -
Style:Minimalism -
Genre:sculpture -
Media:pencil, wire -
Location:Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, US
44th Wire Piece
Richard Tuttle
44th Wire Piece is part of a series of 48 wire works that reflects Richard Tuttle’s thinking about the relationships between drawing and sculpture. To install the work, Tuttle enters a meditative state in order to recall the length and width of the line necessary to create a given piece. After drawing that line in one fluid motion directly on the wall, he then unspools a filament of florist wire, anchoring one end to the drawn line’s point of origin with a small nail. Tuttle traces the line’s trajectory with the wire filament, fastening its other end to the wall at the end of the line. The final work is a line that exists in three dimensions, with the shadow cast by the wire making a third linear element.
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