THOMAS SCHÜTTE

January 16 - February 25, 1999

Thomas Schtote was born in 1954, in Oldenburg,Germany. He lives and works in Dϋsseldorf.

"One of the most important German artists working in the late 20th century, Thomas Schütte's installations, sculptures, models, drawings and watercolours can take many, often contradictory guises.

His art looks utilitarian, offering shelter, sustenance and companionship, yet delivers false promises and alien worlds: a museum that incinerates art; potatoes made of bronze; or the artist's own 'audience', consisting of wooden stand-ins or metallic figures assembled before his work. Like Gulliver wandering through a Swiftian world of shifting scales, the viewer is immersed in a series of theatrum mundi, poetic yet dysfunctional utopias which alternate between the private and the public, the romantic and the sceptical.

The artist deploys a vivid spectrum of colours and a range of materials to revision the basic constituents - natural, cultural and political - of everyday life whilst exploring fundamental questions about the artist and society."

(Thomas Schütte, Phaidon)

The exhibition will last until February 25, 1999. The gallery will remain open Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 8pm. On Saturday the gallery will remain open 12pm -4pm.