Perhaps it's Over

Richard Tuttle's Perhaps it's Over belongs to a select group of wall-mounted assemblages that the artist executed in the 1980s which continued his emphasis on the subtle and intimate differences between line and form. The amalgamation hugs the vertical plane of the wall and acts as a drawing, rather than a sculpture, and emphasizes the ideas-based nature of his practice.

The work contains Tuttle's typical and most iconic materials including wood, cotton, cardboard, metal and electrical wire. It relates to Minimalism in its purity of form, but abandons its principles in its material experimentation and his skill lies in his ability to create desirable works that contain simple forms and humble materials.

Richard Tuttle's reputation as one of the leading postminimalist artists rests on his persistently unconstrained art practice that uses improvisational working procedures and non-traditional materials. Yet unlike his minimalist predecessors who based their practice on reductive and impersonal creations, the multiplicity of concepts in Tuttle's work is made all the more successful because of his intensely personal reaction to the materials and how they work in conjunction with each other.