Thomas Schütte (*1954)

The ‘ghosts' approaching the visitor seem almost human. With their facial expressions and their gestures they have distinctive characters and are clearly types extracted from other situations. But the motivation behind their actions is unclear. And so these ghosts remain no more than art figures, openly revealing their production from lumps of malleable material. Questions concerning the materials used by classical sculptors combined with an innate interest in the human form led the artist, in the early 1990s, from ‘sculpture as model' to figurative three-dimensional works that address the mental states and social situations that affect human beings. ___