Thomas Putze

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Thomas Putze (born February 7, 1968 in Augsburg ) is a German sculptor and performance artist .

Life

Plaster first completed an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener. From 1990 to 1991 he worked on development projects in Guatemala before he began studying theology in Wuppertal and from 1995 worked as a freelance illustrator and musician . During this time he founded the band The Chill . From 1997 he studied at the Free Art School in Stuttgart . In 2003 he moved to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and studied sculpture with Werner Pokorny and Micha Ullman . In 2005 and 2006 he received a graduate scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Plaster's works were purchased by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , the Forum Kunst Rottweil and the LBBW Collection.

Above all, Plaster creates animal sculptures from wood, which he works with a chainsaw. He writes about his choice of topics: I suspect that my pig sculptures would be ineffective both in the viewer and in me without the background of experience with real pigs. When I am interested in animals, I immerse myself in the impression of the wild creature, the artistic work is like an emergence into the usually somewhat more inhospitable reality of the material and myself. In his performances at exhibitions, Putze describes his thoughts on the concept of art: ... Art is one of the last opportunities to discover something in this society. - … further development is destruction and a new beginning . - … Life without art would only be two-dimensional for me .

Prices

  • 1st prize, Saarpfälzischer Kunstpreis, Bexbach, 2000
  • 1st prize, Art in Architecture, Friedrich List School Karlsruhe, 2003
  • 2nd prize, Sculptures in the Park , Mörfelden-Walldorf, 2004
  • 1st Prize, Art Prize of the Evangelical Regional Church, 2012

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Leonberg Gallery Association, 2002
  • Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen, 2003
  • Kulturbahnhof Kassel, 2003
  • Debut exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 2004
  • Art Association Trossingen, 2005
  • Kunstverein Oberer Neckar, Horb, 2006
  • Art in KISS Castle, Untergröningen, 2007
  • Kunsthaus Essen, 2007
  • Kunstverein Germersheim, 2008
  • E-Werk Freiburg, 2008
  • Art Amsterdam, 2008
  • Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen, 2008
  • Kunstverein Oberer Neckar, Horb, "Art in the City", 2008
  • Kuratorium Freiburger Schlossberg eV, “aussichtKUNST”, 2012
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Novosibirsk in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, 2013
  • Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, “Putze dosed”, 2013
  • Art Museum Gelsenkirchen “Higher and lower monkeys”, 2014
  • Kunstverein Xanten, "ex immunitate", 2016
  • Municipal gallery ferry , Bad Saulgau, “ArtGenossen. The animal and us ”, 2017
  • Tobias Schrade Gallery, Ulm, “Promenade Mixture // Sculpture and Drawing”, 2017
  • Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart, "Mit Spieler", 2018
  • Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 2018

Art actions (selection)

  • April 16, 2008: Thomas Putze rocks in the rabbit hutch and art is. . (various videos)
  • February 10, 2009: Performance "Dedicated to HAP Grieshaber"
  • June 27, 2009: Music performance in the Kränzl gallery
  • March 22, 2010: Performance against S 21
  • June 8, 2010: Performance “Migrant” in the interior of the University Church in Marburg
  • September 3, 2010: “Z Unterwanderung”, 16-hour performance in Stuttgart
  • June 9th, 2011: “Don't kill kites building” - campaign with children

Catalogs

  • Thomas Putze, Sculptures, Installations, Actions, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-931485-65-X
  • Thomas Putze, installation, catalog Kunstverein Trossingen e. V. (Ed.), 2005
  • Thomas Putze, "Sauställe", catalog Kunstverein Oberer Neckar e. V. (Ed.), 2006
  • Thomas Putze, "Verhundst", Verlag Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940985-10-1
  • Thomas Putze, "topless", with Annett Reckert, booklet, publications of the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814150-3-2
  • “Putze, alles”, publication on the exhibitions in the Tobias Schrade Gallery, Ulm, Merkle Gallery, Stuttgart, and Peter Tedden Gallery, Düsseldorf, with texts by Helga Gutbrod and Michael Reuter. Stuttgart / Ulm / Düsseldorf 2012
  • “Plaster, dosed”, Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen. modo Verlag, Freiburg 2013
  • Thomas Putze, NECK ABOVE HEAD, Galerie stern-wywiol, Verlag Robert Wenzel, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9807275-8-7

Web links

Commons : Thomas Putze  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Association KISS, The exposed animal. Animal coexistence , Untergröningen 2007, p. 46
  2. ↑ Putzes comments on his work
  3. ^ Press release from the Church and Art Foundation in the Württemberg regional church
  4. ↑ Video of the performance for the award ceremony in Urach's Amandus Church
  5. ↑ Video Thomas Putze rocks. All films were shot by Thomas Landenberger.
  6. ↑ Video HAP Grieshaber
  7. ↑ Video in the Kränzl gallery
  8. ↑ Video against page 21
  9. ↑ Video migrants
  10. ↑ Video Z infiltration
  11. ↑ Video building kites not killing
personal data
SURNAME Clean, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg