The New National Museum of Monaco – Villa Paloma – is presenting for the first time in the Principality the works of German artist Thomas Schütte from July 7 to November 11, 2012.
Co-produced with the Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, this exhibition is the second stage of a project dedicated to Thomas Schütte, whose works have also been displayed from May 23 to September 23, 2012, at the Castello di Rivoli.
The curators’ project at Villa Paloma focuses on a series of architectural models – the One Man Houses – as well as a selection of recent works never before exhibited, which explore many themes dear to the artist, such as bunkers and temples. The exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli focuses on the Frauen series – extraordinary figures of women whose bodies are subjected to spatial and organic deformations.
Born in 1954 in Oldenburg, Germany, Thomas Schütte is a German sculptor. In 1987, Schütte participated in the Skulptur Projekte in Münster. In 1990, a retrospective of his work traveled from the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, to the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands. At Documenta IX in Kassel, in 1992, Thomas Schütte exhibited Die Fremden / The Foreigners, a group of life-sized figures, a part of which is still visible. In 2003, a traveling exhibition was presented at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, the Musée de Grenoble, and the K21 in Düsseldorf. A significant retrospective was showcased in 2010 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. In 2005, Thomas Schütte received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.
