Funny
I'm scared. I see a large dirty colossus with a mouth that smokes. I lose all control. For a moment I fantasize about being torn apart, about my blood being smeared all over the square, about my limbs being torn apart.
I stand still for a moment. I see drowsy eyes. I see smoke without fire. I see a mouth in a kind of shy smile. Now my fantasies go the other way. This turns out to be a funny artwork.
Sloppily folded steel plates represent front legs. The animal has no muscular back legs but indefinable pimples that could represent fins.
I've experienced situations with a threatening colleague, manager or customer who, on closer inspection, turned out to be a funny monster. But at that moment I only saw angry eyes, a mouth and smoke.
I love to recognize situations that used to hurt me but that I have now overcome, that I can now handle, that I now understand better. It's great to laugh about what at first glance seems to be danger.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Grappig
Ik schrik. Ik zie een groot smerig gevaarte met een muil waar rook uit komt. Ik verlies alle controle. Eventjes fantaseer ik dat ik verscheurd word, dat mijn bloed over het hele plein gesmeerd wordt, dat mijn ledematen uit elkaar worden gescheurd.
Ik blijf even staan. Ik zie lodderige ogen. Ik zie rook zonder vuur. Ik zie een muil in een soort verlegen glimlach. Nu gaan mijn fantasie n de andere kant op. Dit blijkt een grappig kunstwerk te zijn.
Slordig gevouwen stalen platen stellen voorpoten voor. Het dier heeft geen gespierde achterpoten maar ondefinieerbare puistjes die vinnen kunnen voorstellen.
Ik heb situaties meegemaakt met een dreigende collega, leidinggevende of klant die bij nader inzien een grappig monster was. Maar op dat moment zag ik alleen boze ogen, een muil en rook.
Ik vind het heerlijk om situaties te herkennen die mij vroeger pijn deden maar die ik nu heb overwonnen, die ik nu aankan, die ik nu beter snap. Het is nu heerlijk om te lachen om hetgeen bij de eerste indruk gevaar lijkt te zijn.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com.
www.art.baloise.com:
Baloise have installed the 3.5 meter tall bronze sculpture Drittes Tier (Third Animal, 2017) by Thomas Sch tte.
The early years of Thomas Sch tte s career as an artist in the 1980s focused on architectural-style models and objects, sometimes featuring small figures. In the 1990s, the little figures embedded in the architectural models were freed from their narrative context. They became works in their own right, on a larger scale, produced in different materials; for instance, figures made of Fimo modelling clay that he later scaled up to huge dimensions and cast in bronze.
In contrast to this bright-hued modelling clay, bronze is a material that is associated, in the world of western art, with the notion of sculptures as lasting testaments and public memorials.
Sch tte, however, has always been open to forms of expression that do not fit easily into the canon of modern art. Materials such as glazed ceramics and Murano glass take on a hitherto rarely seen meaningfulness.
His portrayals of the human figure in various different media clearly indicate that not only the frailty and vulnerability of human existence, but also its absurd and grotesque aspects, are the driving forces in Thomas Sch tte s art.
www.depont.nl:
The Westkunstmodelle provide the basis for the extremely diverse oeuvre of the German artist Thomas Schütte (Oldenburg, 1954), whose body of work ranges from steel, bronze and ceramic sculptures to delicate watercolours and etchings.
www.waymarking.com:
This sculpture stands in front of the Bâloise Insurance headquarters near the train station in Basel. The dragon also has certain similarities with a seal, a dog or a tapir. It emits a cloud of steam from its nostrils at intervals of a few dozen seconds, hissing. The sculpture is about three meters high and about four meters long. It was created by the well-known artist Thomas Schütte and was inaugurated for the opening of the Bâloise Park in the fall of 2020.
Diese Skulptur steht vor dem Hauptsitz der Bâloise Versicherung in der Nähe des Bahnhofs in Basel. Der Drache hat auch gewisse ähnlichkeiten mit einer Robbe, einem Hund oder einem Tapir. Er stösst in Abstanden von einigen Dutzend Sekunden fauchend eine Dampfwolke aus seinen Nüstern. Die Skulptur ist etwa drei Meter hoch und rund vier Meter lang. Sie stammt von dem bekannten Künstler Thomas Schütte und wurde zur Eröffnung des Bâloise-Parks im Herbst 2020 eingeweiht.
www.wikipedia.org:
Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Schütte has received numerous awards, including the Kurt Schwitters Preis für Bildende Kunst der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, 1998, and the Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg, Germany, 1996. In 2005, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his work in María de Corral's exhibition 'The Experience of Art'. He was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize in 2010, previously given to Bruce Nauman, Marlene Dumas, and Rosemarie Trockel.
I'm scared. I see a large dirty colossus with a mouth that smokes. I lose all control. For a moment I fantasize about being torn apart, about my blood being smeared all over the square, about my limbs being torn apart.
I stand still for a moment. I see drowsy eyes. I see smoke without fire. I see a mouth in a kind of shy smile. Now my fantasies go the other way. This turns out to be a funny artwork.
Sloppily folded steel plates represent front legs. The animal has no muscular back legs but indefinable pimples that could represent fins.
I've experienced situations with a threatening colleague, manager or customer who, on closer inspection, turned out to be a funny monster. But at that moment I only saw angry eyes, a mouth and smoke.
I love to recognize situations that used to hurt me but that I have now overcome, that I can now handle, that I now understand better. It's great to laugh about what at first glance seems to be danger.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Grappig
Ik schrik. Ik zie een groot smerig gevaarte met een muil waar rook uit komt. Ik verlies alle controle. Eventjes fantaseer ik dat ik verscheurd word, dat mijn bloed over het hele plein gesmeerd wordt, dat mijn ledematen uit elkaar worden gescheurd.
Ik blijf even staan. Ik zie lodderige ogen. Ik zie rook zonder vuur. Ik zie een muil in een soort verlegen glimlach. Nu gaan mijn fantasie n de andere kant op. Dit blijkt een grappig kunstwerk te zijn.
Slordig gevouwen stalen platen stellen voorpoten voor. Het dier heeft geen gespierde achterpoten maar ondefinieerbare puistjes die vinnen kunnen voorstellen.
Ik heb situaties meegemaakt met een dreigende collega, leidinggevende of klant die bij nader inzien een grappig monster was. Maar op dat moment zag ik alleen boze ogen, een muil en rook.
Ik vind het heerlijk om situaties te herkennen die mij vroeger pijn deden maar die ik nu heb overwonnen, die ik nu aankan, die ik nu beter snap. Het is nu heerlijk om te lachen om hetgeen bij de eerste indruk gevaar lijkt te zijn.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com.
www.art.baloise.com:
Baloise have installed the 3.5 meter tall bronze sculpture Drittes Tier (Third Animal, 2017) by Thomas Sch tte.
The early years of Thomas Sch tte s career as an artist in the 1980s focused on architectural-style models and objects, sometimes featuring small figures. In the 1990s, the little figures embedded in the architectural models were freed from their narrative context. They became works in their own right, on a larger scale, produced in different materials; for instance, figures made of Fimo modelling clay that he later scaled up to huge dimensions and cast in bronze.
In contrast to this bright-hued modelling clay, bronze is a material that is associated, in the world of western art, with the notion of sculptures as lasting testaments and public memorials.
Sch tte, however, has always been open to forms of expression that do not fit easily into the canon of modern art. Materials such as glazed ceramics and Murano glass take on a hitherto rarely seen meaningfulness.
His portrayals of the human figure in various different media clearly indicate that not only the frailty and vulnerability of human existence, but also its absurd and grotesque aspects, are the driving forces in Thomas Sch tte s art.
www.depont.nl:
The Westkunstmodelle provide the basis for the extremely diverse oeuvre of the German artist Thomas Schütte (Oldenburg, 1954), whose body of work ranges from steel, bronze and ceramic sculptures to delicate watercolours and etchings.
www.waymarking.com:
This sculpture stands in front of the Bâloise Insurance headquarters near the train station in Basel. The dragon also has certain similarities with a seal, a dog or a tapir. It emits a cloud of steam from its nostrils at intervals of a few dozen seconds, hissing. The sculpture is about three meters high and about four meters long. It was created by the well-known artist Thomas Schütte and was inaugurated for the opening of the Bâloise Park in the fall of 2020.
Diese Skulptur steht vor dem Hauptsitz der Bâloise Versicherung in der Nähe des Bahnhofs in Basel. Der Drache hat auch gewisse ähnlichkeiten mit einer Robbe, einem Hund oder einem Tapir. Er stösst in Abstanden von einigen Dutzend Sekunden fauchend eine Dampfwolke aus seinen Nüstern. Die Skulptur ist etwa drei Meter hoch und rund vier Meter lang. Sie stammt von dem bekannten Künstler Thomas Schütte und wurde zur Eröffnung des Bâloise-Parks im Herbst 2020 eingeweiht.
www.wikipedia.org:
Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Schütte has received numerous awards, including the Kurt Schwitters Preis für Bildende Kunst der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, 1998, and the Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg, Germany, 1996. In 2005, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his work in María de Corral's exhibition 'The Experience of Art'. He was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize in 2010, previously given to Bruce Nauman, Marlene Dumas, and Rosemarie Trockel.