Thomas Schutte Ceramics

Anything is possible in thomas schütte s highly unique approach to art.

Thomas schutte ceramics.

He sculpts creates architectural designs and draws. Artist thomas schütte showcased key sculptural photographic and painted portraits at the serpentine gallery. He lives and works in düsseldorf. His looming bronzes and ceramics are complex characters like hybrids of giacometti s elegiac wanderers and willem grimm s fairy tale ghouls.

One of the most important sculptors working today the german artist rejects the notion of repeating a style for the purpose of building a brand. Thomas schütte b 1954 ceramic sketch stamped 201198 on the side glazed ceramic 11 x 13 1 8 x 7 5 8in. Schütte has exhibited and made permanent commissions across europe and america. Although schütte has returned to portraiture throughout his career this was the first exhibition dedicated entirely to these pioneering works.

Thomas schutte selected works 24 january. Instead he prefers to return to previous themes motifs and forms in order to further develop and transform them. If there s a place left in this world for big brooding yet resolutely nuanced artworks then thomas schütte has found it. In addition to sculptures in bronze steel and glass the exhibition of the artist who lives in düsseldorf also presents colored ceramics including recently created women s heads the large format portrait busts of i iv ghost heads and a group of garden gnomes created in 2016.