Edited with text by Paulina Pobocha. Text by Jennifer Allen, Marlene Dumas, Charles Ray, André Rottman. Chronology by Caitlin Chaisson, Lydia Mullin.
A single potato chip on a matchbox, larger-than-life figurative sculptures polished to a gleam: Thomas Schütte’s category-defying oeuvre gives form to the incongruences of the world we inhabit
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Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited with text by Paulina Pobocha. Text by Jennifer Allen, Marlene Dumas, Charles Ray, André Rottman. Chronology by Caitlin Chaisson, Lydia Mullin.
The Düsseldorf–based sculptor, draftsman, model maker and sometime architect Thomas Schütte works in scales ranging from small to monumental. Rooted in minimal and conceptual art, his work addresses history, art history, modes of meaning and how art can function in the world. Published in conjunction with the first museum retrospective of Schütte’s work in the United States in over 20 years, this eponymous monograph presents a holistic overview of his career from 1975 to the present. Taking aesthetics, form and history as its focus, the publication features over 100 sculptures, drawings, prints and experiments in architecture, alongside revelatory archival materials. Curator Paulina Pobocha has worked in close collaboration with Schütte since 2015, and has had complete access to his archives, as well as the myriad drawings and notebooks still in his possession. Excerpts from these papers are published for the first time in this catalog. Additionally, essays by Pobocha, Jennifer Allen and André Rottmann provide historical and theoretical pathways into the complexity of Schütte’s oeuvre, and contributions by artists Marlene Dumas and Charles Ray reflect on Schütte’s significance through close readings of his work. Thomas Schütte (born 1954) studied under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has participated in Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster and the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Golden Lion in 2005. His work can be found in the collections of major institutions across Europe and North America.
Published by Cahiers d'Art. Text by Éric de Chassey.
This series of 27 ceramic heads from German artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) conjures the characters from Samuel Beckett’s final play, What Where, portraying the bulbous, sagging faces of old men with such exaggeration that they verge on caricatured surrealism.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited with text by Christiane Lange. Text by Julian Heynen.
From the early 1920s until the 1960s, many designers affiliated with the Bauhaus worked in Krefeld, Germany. On the occasion of the Bauhaus centenary in 2019, German artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) responds to the city’s architectural legacy by designing a pavilion and an exhibition inside it.
Published by Richter Verlag. Essays by Jan Avgikos, Lynne Cooke, Alexander Kluge, Gertrud Sandqvist, Susan Steward,
Thomas Schütte's works are almost always proposals, and are consequently almost always in the form of models. At the core of this system of presentation lies hypothesis and speculation, moralism and romanticism, melancholy and black humor. Through early architectural installations and small-scale modeled figures and proposals for monuments, through extensive series of watercolors, banners, flags and photographs, Schutte takes a skeptical look at the world. This new monograph explores in detail the vast scope and extraordinary inventiveness of Schutte's work by documenting his tripartite exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York. "Scenewright" focuses on issues relating to sceneography and theater; "Gloria in Memoria" explores memorials, monuments and antiheroes; and "In Media Res" presents recent ceramics and a related series of monumental steel sculptures.
Published by Cahiers d'Art. Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Anya Bondell.
Pairing a selection of watercolors from 2011 and 2012 by Thomas Schütte with a selection of previously unpublished poems written by Robert Walser in Bern between 1924 and 1933, this book is a deeply personal exploration of our everyday selves, choreographed by one of our most important living artist.
Walser's poems have been exhibited as artworks in the past, and the poet was fascinated by watercolors and the particular effect they have on human eye. With these watercolors, Schütte has not only given us an extraordinary and moving selection of his own artwork, but he has paid tribute to Walser, who is one of his heroes.
Published by Richter Verlag. Text by Andrea Bellini, Dieter Schwarz.
Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. In the 1990s, he produced ceramic figures and monumental sculptures of bronze and steel. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work: ateliers for artistic activity, and bunkers to which one might retreat. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of wood and studio leftovers, as well as commercial and public buildings. Where his early models exist as potential buildings only, the later models of his One Man Houses series (from 2003 to the present) are designed to be built (as several have been). Houses provides a comprehensive survey of Schütte’s architectural models, from his early experiments through to his current design projects.
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Sophie O’Brian. Foreword by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by John Berger.
Over the last two decades, alongside his better known sculptural work, German artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) has created watercolors and drawings of his acquaintances and friends, as well as numerous self-portraits (such as the Mirror Drawings). These drawings are often created in series, as Schütte approaches the same subject over and over, obsessively covering all angles and methodically exhausting the possibilities. Schütte’s drawings directly inform his sculptural portraits, which are created in a similar spirit. With 130 color reproductions, Faces and Figures offers a selective, themed Schütte retrospective, surveying these portraits and other works on paper, as well as ceramic and bronze sculptures--including the impressive “Vater Staat” (Father State), a towering steel figure that despite its scale appears frail and isolate.
Published by Richter Verlag. Text by Andrea Bellini, Dieter Schwarz.
Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) is one of the most idiosyncratic of present-day artists, venturing to deploy techniques, genres and themes long thought passé--such as the sculpturally formed female figure--in permanent materials such as bronze, aluminum and steel. Schütte began his Frauen series toward the end of the 1990s and, while his first reclining nudes can be understood within the language of Classicism, his later, monumental figures with sawn-off limbs and various distortions--sometimes with bodies steamrolled flat or in tantalizing poses--resist all attempts at easy categorization. But Schütte’s brutal treatment of the female form is motivated less by a desire to shock than by a concern with the figure as a present-day testing ground for artistic expression, one that is frequently shot through with Schütte’s characteristic morbid humor. Frauen contains almost 200 color reproductions, along with texts by Andrea Bellini and Dieter Schwarz.
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Ulrich Loock. Text by James Lingwood, Hans Rudolf Reust.
From early architectural models and theatrical constructions to houses and utilitarian design, the sculpture of Thomas Schütte (born 1954) has pursued all categories of the medium; his website organizes his oeuvre into Houses, Bunkers, Monuments, Animals, Spirits, Jokes, Fruits and Vegetables, Women, Men, Flowers and Vases. This book spans 30 years of his practice.
Published by Richter Verlag. Text by Patrizia Dander, Stefanie Manthey.
Since the 1980s, Düsseldorf artist Thomas Schütte (born 1953) has produced architectural models, sculptures of female heads in steel, bronze and aluminum, and a large body of works on paper. This latest monograph examines the latter, executed over the past three years, which use watercolor, ink and graphite to bring humor, ideas and observations into a diaristic form.
Published by DuMont. Essay by Ulrich Loock. Foreword by Friedrich Christian Flick.
Thomas Schtte has frequently cast himself into the role of a maverick--remained remote from the work of his artistic mentor, distanced himself from the statements of each ephemeral Zeitgeist and increasingly contradicted his own positions--and in so doing has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. Shifting from text to image to object to book, his work juxtaposes biographical moments with contemporary events, oscillates between the aspiration to shape the public reception of architecture and monumental sculpture and the conjunctive of model-maker, and projects avant-garde ideas onto traditional forms of art. With meticulous rigor, Ulrich Loock has observed the evolution of Schtte's output over the past 25 years. Underpinning his lucid overview is a series of intensive discussions between the author and artist on the genesis and history of particular works. This well-designed book is the most comprehensive monograph of the artist's work to date, and provides profound insight into Schtte's work through detailed discussions of the pieces.
Published by Dia Art Foundation. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Michael Govan, Getrud Sandqvist, Susan Stewart.
Fundamentally, my works are almost always in the nature of a proposal, Thomas Schütte contends, while conceding that "nonetheless, mostly they exist in the form of models." Schütte's notion of models is, consequently, encompassing and complex: at its core lies hypothesis and speculation. This new monograph explores in detail the vast scope of work by this renowned mid-career German artist by documenting a tripartite, eighteen-month exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts which in effect constitutes a retrospective overview of the artist's oeuvre. Devised in three segments with distinct points of reference, this unusually extended presentation revealed the extraordinary inventiveness and diversity of Schütte's production. Scenewright, the first installment, from September 1998 through January 1999, focuses on issues relating to scenography and theater. Gloria in Memoria, from February through June 1999, explores memorials, monuments and antiheroes, and includes works ranging from installations and sculpture to drawing. The third and final phase, In Medias Res, from September 1999 through June 2000, concentrated on recent ceramics, shown together with a new series of related monumental steel sculptures. The accompanying catalogue follows the same format as the exhibition, with essays by Dia curator and renowned art scholar Lynne Cooke as well as acclaimed poet and critic Susan Stewart.
Thomas Schütte: Old Friends Revisited
Thomas Schütte: Krefeld Pavillon
Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte: Collector's Choice Vol. 2
Thomas Schütte: Watercolors for Robert Walser and Donald Young
Thomas Schütte: Houses
Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures
Thomas Schütte: Frauen
Thomas Schütte: Public Political Works
Thomas Schütte: Deprinotes 2006-2008