Thomas Schutte Ceramics

He sculpts creates architectural designs and draws.

Thomas schutte ceramics. Instead he prefers to return to previous themes motifs and forms in order to further develop and transform them. 28 7 x 33 2 x 19 5cm executed in 1997 1999. Schütte has exhibited and made permanent commissions across europe and america. His looming bronzes and ceramics are complex characters like hybrids of giacometti s elegiac wanderers and willem grimm s fairy tale ghouls.

Thomas schütte born november 16 1954 is a german contemporary artist. Artist thomas schütte showcased key sculptural photographic and painted portraits at the serpentine gallery. Although schütte has returned to portraiture throughout his career this was the first exhibition dedicated entirely to these pioneering works. Anything is possible in thomas schütte s highly unique approach to art.

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. 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. If there s a place left in this world for big brooding yet resolutely nuanced artworks then thomas schütte has found it. He lives and works in düsseldorf.