One of the most eclectic, visionary modern artist, Thomas Schütte has been invited by Fondation Pinault to call Punta dell Dogana Museum home for his first large monograph exhibition in Italy.
Curated by Camille Morineau and Jean-Marie Gallais, Genealogies is a compendium of over fifty years of art production by Schütte, a story of the deeply ironic, disquieting, and theatrical character of his oeuvre. Born in West Germany in 1954, and lived through momentous times in German history: the division, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the country’s reunification. Schütte got his education at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers was the great Gerhard Richter, who influenced him deeply. Since the 1970s, Thomas Schütte’s art stood out for its ability to explore the fragility of the human condition with a palette of drama, grotesque, irony, and pathos. His human figures, often monumental and deliberately imperfect, look like caricatures of classical sculpture: deformed faces, hollowed eyes, disproportionate limbs: evoking tradition only to desecrate it.
