Thomas Schutte Ceramics

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 schutte ceramics.

Artist thomas schütte showcased key sculptural photographic and painted portraits at the serpentine gallery. Thomas schutte selected works 24 january. His looming bronzes and ceramics are complex characters like hybrids of giacometti s elegiac wanderers and willem grimm s fairy tale ghouls. Although schütte has returned to portraiture throughout his career this was the first exhibition dedicated entirely to these pioneering works.

He lives and works in düsseldorf. Instead he prefers to return to previous themes motifs and forms in order to further develop and transform them. Thomas schütte born november 16 1954 is a german contemporary artist. If there s a place left in this world for big brooding yet resolutely nuanced artworks then thomas schütte has found it.

Schütte has exhibited and made permanent commissions across europe and america. 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. He sculpts creates architectural designs and draws. 28 7 x 33 2 x 19 5cm executed in 1997 1999.