German artist Thomas Sch???tte (b.1954) is concerned with models for living, rules for making art and, in turn, the failed flights of these systems and aspirations. Sch???tte's art looks utilitarian - offering shelter, sustenance and companionship - but delivers false promises and alien worlds such as his museum that incinerates art, potatoes made of bronze and the artist's vision of humanity as tiny wooden audiences, two-headed hybrids or giant robotic figures. Sch???tte's sculptures vary in scale from giant candy ...
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German artist Thomas Sch???tte (b.1954) is concerned with models for living, rules for making art and, in turn, the failed flights of these systems and aspirations. Sch???tte's art looks utilitarian - offering shelter, sustenance and companionship - but delivers false promises and alien worlds such as his museum that incinerates art, potatoes made of bronze and the artist's vision of humanity as tiny wooden audiences, two-headed hybrids or giant robotic figures. Sch???tte's sculptures vary in scale from giant candy-coloured fruits to miniature fairy-tale buildings. The artist manipulates size, materials and subject matter with astounding versatility and dexterity, perpetually shifting scales so that the viewer is immersed in a series of poetic yet dysfunctional utopias. He has also constructed a series of architectural models of institutions and monuments whose eclectic array of building typologies suggest de Chirico-like metaphysical spaces. Sch???tte's sculptures, installations, photographs and watercolours have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as in public commissions throughout Europe and America. This book, which accompanied the first major survey of Sch???tte's work in Britain (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1998) remains the essential monograph on the work of this enigmatic and extraordinary artist. Julian Heynen, Director of Exhibitions at the Krefeld Art Museums, who curated Sch???tte's first museum exhibition in 1986, charts a topography of media and subject matter in the artist's work. James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel, London, and curator of the 1998 Sch???tte survey at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, speaks with the artist about the development of his practice and his relationship to European sculptural traditions in a German context. Italian art critic and curator Angela Vettese focuses on the artist's contribution to the 1997 Skulptur Projekte in Munster, Kirschensaule (Cherry Column). Sch???tte has selected a passage by the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca from 'De Vita Beata' on the paths of happiness. The artist's own writings are represented by a bedtime story, a fantastical allegory of the art world and its unexpected sequel.
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VG-some light wear to corners and edges, light scuffing, and a bit of curling to corners. Color illustrated wraps. 160 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Includes essays and an interview from the authors, a chronology and bibliography. A very well-uillustrated volume on this German artist.
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Used-Very Good. German artist Thomas Schutte makes sculpture which varies from giant, candy-coloured cherries to miniaturized castles. He manipulates size and materials like a master juggler, inventing familiar yet uncanny scenarios. Like Gulliver we wander through his bizarre worlds of shifting scale, a universe replete with food and shelter yet full of false promise: a museum that incinerates art; bronze potatoes; or his very own 'audience', made up of metal-clad robots assembled before his work. Schutte has also constructed a series of architectural models of institutions and monuments; their eclectic array of building typologies suggests de Chirico-like metaphysical spaces. Schutte's sculpture, installation, photographs and watercolours have been exhibited worldwide; he has also made public commissions throughout Europe. This book accompanied the first major survey of his work in Britain, presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1998 and touring to the De Pont Foundation in Tilburg, the Netherlands, and the Fundacao de Serralves in Porto, Portugal. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.
Add this copy of Thomas Schutte (Contemporary Artists Series). to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998.
