Chair with footrest
2005
Thomas Schütte's "Chair with Footrest" exemplifies the artist's playful investigation of everyday functional objects as vehicles for formal experimentation and conceptual inquiry. The work treats a utilitarian form with the seriousness typically reserved for sculpture, elevating domestic furniture into a medium for exploring proportion, material, and the relationship between use and aesthetic form. Characteristic of Schütte's practice, the piece demonstrates his interest in how mundane objects can be reimagined through artistic intervention to challenge viewers' perceptions of the ordinary.
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- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York
February 26, 2025
Lot 125
Artists in conversation
Franz West
Austrian · b. 1947
West similarly elevated everyday furniture and functional objects into sculptural works, creating chairs and seating forms that blend utility with formal experimentation and a distinctly playful aesthetic sensibility.
Erwin Wurm
Austrian · b. 1954
Wurm shares Schütte's interest in transforming mundane domestic objects through a surrealist and conceptual lens, questioning the relationship between functional form and sculptural meaning with wit and material inventiveness.
Scott Burton
American · b. 1939
Burton devoted his practice to treating furniture as fine sculpture, elevating chairs and functional objects into serious three dimensional art works that investigate proportion, material, and the boundary between design and contemporary art.
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