Thomas Schütte

born 1954
Double Cross
1988

Steel
3820 x 2600 x 2600 mm
Purchased from Faggionato Fine Arts (General Funds) 2003 T11854

The contemporary German artist Thomas Schütte is noted for his architecturelike sculptures. These have stage-like properties and are sometimes peopled by model figures, suggesting an unfolding narrative. Double Cross, with its cruciform red house perched atop a set of fins, belongs to a group of imaginary structures that Schütte calls Denkmodelle, or 'conceptual models'. He conceived them first as drawings and as a series of large banners, before their fabrication as objects. Schütte usually used plywood or cardboard to make these models. As it was originally designed to be sited outside, Double Cross is unusual in being both larger in scale and made in steel.