Thomas Schutte Ceramics

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

Thomas schutte ceramics.

Thomas schütte b 1954 ceramic sketch stamped 201198 on the side glazed ceramic 11 x 13 1 8 x 7 5 8in. He sculpts creates architectural designs and draws. 28 7 x 33 2 x 19 5cm executed in 1997 1999. Instead he prefers to return to previous themes motifs and forms in order to further develop and transform them.

His looming bronzes and ceramics are complex characters like hybrids of giacometti s elegiac wanderers and willem grimm s fairy tale ghouls. If there s a place left in this world for big brooding yet resolutely nuanced artworks then thomas schütte has found it. It includes ceramics self portraits a series of watercolours entitled 24 portraits of women and photographs from the united enemies 1994 series together with wax models and ghost 1995 figures in pvc. 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.

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. Schütte has exhibited and made permanent commissions across europe and america. He lives and works in düsseldorf.