Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
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Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)

Kirschensäule, Modell 1:5 (Cherry Column, Model 1:5)

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Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
Kirschensäule, Modell 1:5 (Cherry Column, Model 1:5)
signed and numbered 'Th. Schütte 1/7' (on the underside)
lacquered wood
44 7/8 x 10 x 10in. (114 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1987, this work is number one from an edition of seven
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1987.
Literature
Thomas Schütte: Big Buildings - Modelle und Ansichten, exh. cat., Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2010 (installation view of another from the edition illustrated, p. 121).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Jubilantly fixed atop a wooden plinth are two cherries in Thomas Schütte’s playful juxtaposition Kirschensäule, Modell 1:5, 1987. Part of a multimedia series, Untitled served as prototype for Schütte’s contemporaneous monumental Kirschensäule, or cherry column, for Harsewinkelplatz in Münster. Like a modern day triumphal column, the Kirschensäule has become a landmark and a gathering point, helping to revitalize the neighbourhood’s urban fabric. Much of Schütte’s artistic career has been fascinated with questions of place and legacy, themes he probes in his architectural models and site-specific propositions: ‘I like the small scale of the model because you have the whole world inside a room or on a table top’ (T. Schütte quoted in J. Lingwood, Thomas Schütte, New York, 1998, p. 25). Kirschensäule, Modell 1:5 challenges the belief that an enduring monumentality is achievable and instead celebrates the joy and drollness of life as it is.

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