EventsThe New Social Environment#414

Nixe: Thomas Schütte

Featuring Schütte and Amanda Gluibizzi

Monday, October 25, 2021 11 a.m. Eastern / 8 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Thomas Schütte joins Rail Artseen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by S.J. Ghaus.

In this Talk

Check out Thomas Schütte on view at Peter Freeman, Inc. until November 6 →

Thomas Schütte

Photo courtesy of Stephan Meyer-Bergfeld

Artist Thomas Schütte was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1954 and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he received instruction from Gerhard Richter and Daniel Buren. Since the mid-1980s, figuration has been a central concern for the artist; his use of figure and representation of the body coincided with a general return to the themes of narrative and allegory in art in the 1980s—a period in which theatricality was a prevalent political, social, and cultural mode. Schütte’s works present what the artist has referred to as “the grammar of character,” as opposed to a mere representation of the psychological. His current exhibition at Peter Freeman, Inc. is on view through November 6, 2021.

Amanda Gluibizzi

Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨