THOMAS SCHOTTE has frequently cast himself into the role of a maver-ick - remained remote from the work of his artisticl, mentors, 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 contem-porary events, oscillates between the aspiration to shape the public recep-tion of architecture and monumental sculpture and the conjunctive of the tinker and the model-maker, and projects avantg irdist ideas onto traditional forms of art.

THOMAS SCHOTTE has frequently cast himself into the role of a maver-ick - remained remote from the work of his artisticl, mentors, 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 contem-porary events, oscillates between the aspiration to shape the public recep-tion of architecture and monumental sculpture and the conjunctive of the tinker and the model-maker, and projects avantg irdist ideas onto traditional forms of art.

With meticulous rigor Ulrich Loock has obs, rved the evolution of Schtitte's output over the past 25 years. Underpii ning his lucid overview are a series of intensive discussions between the author and the artist on the genesis and histories of the single works.

ULRICH LOOCK is deputy director of the Muset Serralves, Porto, Portu-gal. A fellow student of Thomas Schiitte at the Kunstakademie Diissel-dorf during the 1970s, he published a number of[texts on the artists work during the 1980s. In 1990 he organized a major overview exhibi-tion dedicated to Schiitte in the Kunsthalle Bern.

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TEXT

ULRICH LOOCK

Thomas Schutte: A rather serious game

WORKS

ILLUSTRATIONS WITH COMMENTS  BY THE

ARTIST IN CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR  71

APPENDIX

CATALOG 215

EXHIBITIONS   230

BIBLIOGRAPHY   234