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NOVEMBER 2004 NEW WORK BY RICHARD TUTTLE IS CENTERPIECE OF THE WOLFSONIAN-FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ART BASEL CELEBRATION Sponsored by Fernwood Art Foundation, kate spade new york, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Urban Investments Advisors/Starwood Urban Group, Melissa Shoes, and Continental Airlines. A new work by New York and New Mexico-based artist Richard Tuttle will be unveiled on Friday, December 3, 2004, at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, in celebration of Art Basel | Miami Beach. 'Beauty-in-Advertising,' an exhibit taking place inside and outside the museum, is inspired by nest magazine's great designer, Joe Holtzman, the Wolfsonian's collection of objects, rare books, and archives from 1885 to 1945, and a boyhood dream of Tuttle's. It will be a tour de force made possible by a creativity award from the Fernwood Art Foundation. The work was commissioned by the Miami Beach museum especially for this occasion. In addition to the Fernwood Art Foundation, the Tuttle commission and celebration are sponsored by kate spade new york, Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York, Urban Investments Advisors/Starwood Urban Group, Melissa, and Continental Airlines. The exterior portion of the work is being produced by Viacom Outdoor. Describing his vision, Tuttle said, "Nine separate streamers will be seen cascading from the many-tiered exterior of The Wolfsonian, like rivulets of colors caught in breezes and searchlights will intertwine in the never-repeating journeys on the opening night." Tuttle will also create a small exhibition in one of the galleries. He is "using the Wolfsonian signature 'troupe,' wedding ethnicity and labor as well as design, enlightening a room with history, advertising, and design to enlarge, question, and develop original premises and liberal aesthetics." Selections will include objects from the Wolfsonian's collection and pages pulled right out of contemporary magazine advertising. The work will be unveiled at the museum on December 3, 8 to10 p.m. A street party honoring Tuttle will take place in the courtyard of the Best Western South Beach, across from the museum. The event is open to Art Basel VIP pass holders, Wolfsonian members, and invited guests. The Best Western is located on Washington Avenue, between 10th and 11th Streets, in Miami Beach. A spectacular rooftop fireworks display by the internationally acclaimed Grucci Fireworks of New York kicks off the celebration at 8 p.m. Also being unveiled that evening is a new installation by SALT titled In Advance of a Broken Heart. SALT is an artist collaboration based in New York and Miami concerned with creating new histories of art and its institutions through poetic and fictive forms. The group will utilize The Wolfsonian's bridge tender's house, located outside the museum, for their installation. The festivities are being designed by Kate and Andy Spade of kate spade new york. Internationally acclaimed photographer Martin Parr will chronicle the party, and his clandestine images will be sold to benefit the museum. Designer Todd Oldham has volunteered to DJ. The party is being presented in cooperation with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where a retrospective of Tuttle's work will be shown next year. Additional donations for the party are provided by Jakob Gerhardt Wines, International Wine Brokerage, IZZE Sparkling Juices, and Perrier Jouet Champagne. The party also honors and celebrates the contributions of nest magazine, founded by Joseph Holtzman, which recently ceased publication after 26 issues and is now a collector's item. Holtzman helped conceive the Wolfsonian's Art Basel event. Art Basel | Miami Beach, the American sister of Art Basel in Switzerland, is now in its third year and has become known as the most important art show in America, drawing 30,000 collectors, designers, gallery owners, press and cognoscenti from around the world. "We are honored to be working with an artist of Richard Tuttle's stature, especially in a year when he is to be the subject of a major retrospective, organized by San Francisco MOMA and touring the U.S." noted Cathy Leff. "From his first visit to The Wolfsonian, Richard seemed to respond to the complexities and spirit of our collection, and I know our chief curator Marianne Lamonaca and exhibit designer Richard Miltner have enjoyed engaging with this distinguished artist." About Richard Tuttle Richard Tuttle, known primarily for his sculptures, drawings, and installations, combines an interest in Minimalism with love for irregular materials. His delicate, intimate works are produced from pencil marks, wire, shad effects, wood, and paper. A native New Jerseyan, Tuttle studied at Trinity College, Connecticut, and at New York's Cooper Union. He first showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1965; since then he has had more than 150 gallery exhibitions and more than 50 museum exhibitions. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Zurich, New York, Chicago, Brussels, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Florence, Milan, Vienna, and Paris. His work is widely collected by institutions around the world. 'Richard Tuttle: A Retrospective,' the first full-scale museum show of this important contemporary American artist, has been organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and will on view there from July 2 to October 23, 2005. It will then travel to the Whitney (autumn 2005), the Des Moines Art Center (spring 2006), the Dallas Museum of Art (summer 2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (autumn 2006), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (spring 2007). About the Fernwood Art Foundation The Fernwood Art Foundation, a private non-profit operating foundation funded by Fernwood Art Investments LLC and its founders, who are collectors and philanthropists, is dedicated to bringing art and people closer together. The 2004 Fernwood Art Foundation Award for Creativity is presented to major institutions to stimulate the commissioning and production of new performing, visual and media works that are relevant to new audiences and engage the community. |