Thomas Schütte: Major Sculpture
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Thomas Schütte: Major Sculpture at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Featuring six sculptures from the Frauen (Women) series and the related work Torso (2005), it was the largest presentation in the United States to date of this historic body of work. Among Schütte’s most ambitious and provocative series, Frauen is a sequence of eighteen monumental works made between 1998 and 2006. Cast in bronze, steel, and aluminum on custom steel plinths, they are titled after their materials—Bronzefrau, Stahlfrau, and Aluminiumfrau. Engaging with the classical and neoclassical traditions of the reclining female nude, they relate as well as to modernist revisitations of and challenges to the subject.
The catalogue documents the sculptures in multiple installation views and with details that convey their features and materiality. An illustrated essay by Amber Collins entitled “Slippery Lineages” discusses the characteristics and development of the Frauen series and Schütte’s relationship to modernist figurative sculpture.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2025
Contributor: Amber Collins
Designer: Philipp Hubert
Printer: Pureprint Group, Uckfield, England
Format: Cloth hardcover
Dimensions: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Pages: 68
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-951449-87-2
