Picture "Hats" (1990) (serial unique piece)
Picture "Hats" (1990) (serial unique piece)
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serial unique piece | numbered | signed | dated | mixed media on cardboard | framed | size 72 x 57 cm
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Picture "Hats" (1990) (serial unique piece)
Stencil, gouache and coloured pencil on cardboard, 1990. 20 copies, numbered, signed and dated. Offered here: 1/20. Motif size/sheet size 65 x 50 cm. Size in frame 72 x 57 cm as shown.
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About Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte, born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1954, is one of the most important and highly prized contemporary German sculptors. The artist, who also works as a draughtsman, studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and is a master-class student of Gerhard Richter.
Schütte said of his teacher and what he learned from him: "There is the idea of repertoire, and there is the idea that you shouldn't exhaust people with everlasting ego acts, that you shouldn't bore them."
The artist's figures, architectural models and drawings are characterised by wit and humour; for example, viewers are eyed by cheeky, larger-than-life grimaces.
The Corona pandemic prevented a comprehensive retrospective of the sculptor's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021, but it is now scheduled to take place in 2024. Most recently, the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin presented an exhibition highlighting Thomas Schütte's broad oeuvre and various work cycles.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic production techniques.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.