Christian Schütz
Uederseestrasse 17
10318
Germany (Deutschland)
+49 (0)30 5081657
www.christianschuetz.com
category: Media
technique: Computer art
Style: Abstract
Statement:
The creation and perception of signs in their communicative and even meditative meaning is a cultural basic experience, common to all human civilisations.
The central motivation of my work has therefore become the formation and interpretation of these signs as visual characters.
I am not only interested in the pure aesthetic representation of them, rather then in their inherent ability of relate to each other and to interpret complex subjects/themes/ideas.
Signs linked together in sheer endless variations become impulses for something larger and more complex then they themselves display.
Signs as symbols, pictograms, characters, experiences constant alteration and modification. In support of this process I developed several methods which can be realised today most perfectly with the computer.
Corresponding methods are found in musical composition, mathematics and poetry.
Therefore Art represents for me a method of recognition which can lead to a universal understanding of infinite processes in nature.
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Curriculum vitae Christian Schütz
1941 in Berlin geboren
1958 Schulverbot in der DDR wegen eines politischen Essays
1959 Arbeit in Werbeagentur Dewag
1959-61 Studium an der Universität der Künste in Berlin (Malerei, Buchkunst und Graphik)
1962-91 für das Fernsehen der DDR tätig - Experimentelle Filme, Bühnenbilder,
Graphik, Werbung
seit 1962 freischaffender Künstler in den Bereichen Malerei, Graphik, Zeichnung, Fotographie, Digitale Medien und Film
1980-85 Studium der Kybernetik, Semiotik und Logik
seit 1998 zunehmend Hinwendung zur digitalen Kunst, Computer Art, Mixed Media
Seit 1998 Arbeit in Themenzyklen, die Bezug auf die Beziehung zwischen auditiver und visueller Kunst nehmen („Chaconne“, „Strings“), in denen der menschliche Körper und sein Ausdruck und Vergänglichkeit im Mittelpunkt stehen („The Human Body“, „Penthesilea“ „Traum - schwerelos“) und über die Universalität von Zeichen in ihrer kommunikativen und meditativen Form („Wanderer“, „Island-Runen“)
Nach Ausstellungen in Amerika, Indien und Europa wird das Museum Ludwig im kommenden Jahr seine jüngsten Werke (Computer Art, digitale Kunst) in einer großen Einzelausstellung im Staatlichen Russischen Museum in St. Petersburg präsentieren.
1941 born in Berlin, Germany
1958, as a student at high school he wrote a political essay which caused ban from school and prohibition of further education in East-Berlin (GDR).
1959 transportation worker at KWO Berlin (wire factory �Oberspree� in East-Berlin)
1959-61 student at the Master Collage for Graphics Design and Book Printing Works at Berlin-Friedenau (in West-Berlin until the wall was erected)
1961 trainee at DEWAG (East German Advertising Agency)
Since 1962 independent artist
1970/80ies autodidactic studies of cybernetics, semiotic, logic
1981 (during the period of cold war) informative trip to Paris
1962-89 commercial art for the East-German-TV, screenwriter, filmmaker
Christian Schütz worked across a wide range of media like painting, photography, drawing, illustrating, monoprinting, sculpture, scenery, experimental film and architectural art
Christian Schütz is married, has three children and lives in Berlin, Germany
Activities:
Exhibitions
1962-89 Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen in der DDR
1989 Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen
1995 Hannover Sparkasse
2001 Galerie Maximus, Berlin
2002 Werbeagentur McCain, Frankfurt/Main,
2003 Galerie Wilhelmstraße, Berlin
2003 Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Olbia (Italien)
2004 Kunsthalle Anklam, Einzelausstellung
2008 Gallery Gora, Montreal, Kanada
2009 Kopenhagen, „Sounds of Art“
2009 Florenz Biennale,
2010 apb - Art Place Berlin, Einzelausstellung
2010 Stiftung Oberbergkliniken
2010 Galerie Hartmut van Riesen, Berlin, Einzelausstellung
2010 Museum Chianciano (Italien), Digital Art Award
2010 Urania Berlin, Gruppenausstellung
2011 Aviskar – East meets West, Kalkutta Indien
2011 Aviskar, Bircla Academy of Arts, Kalkutta Indien
2011 Gallery Gagliardi, London, Digital Art and Photography Award
2011 Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung Berlin
2011 International Art Fair, Utrecht, Netherlands
2012 Aviskar, India
2012 Russian State Museum/Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg
Works
1960 �Hell� after Dante Alighieri �Divine Comedy�
1960er Series of paintings (large scale paintings, oil on canvas, up to 7 sqm): e.g.: �Atlas�, �Aztec Woman�, �Negroid Woman�, �Man and Woman� �Uta & Markus� �Restaurant�
1970/80er Series of hand-coloured monoprints and feather drawings �Birds � Structures of Power�, �Marathon-runner�, �Paris � Impressions� �Penthesilea � the struggle of sex�
1989 Poster series for the music theatre at Gelsenkirchen: �Faust�, �La Bohème�, �Little Shop of Horrors�, �Only who knows the longing�, �Fidelio�
Portraits of Prof. Helmut Klein, president of the Humboldt-University at Berlin, and Claudio Abbado, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
Since 1998 digital arts cycles:1998 “GAVINO-VARIATIONEN”
1999/10 “WANDERER”
2001/05 „Variationen M“ nach “Das Jüngste Gericht”
2006/09 “STRINGS” I – Psychodynamik von Tönen
2006/07 “SIGNUM”
2008/09 “BA-Ch” – Figurinen nach der “Chaconne” von J.S. Bach
2009 “Island – Runes”
2010 “MRT” – The Human Body
2011 „Köpfe“ – The Human Body
2009/11 „Strings“ II, III
2005/11 „Traum – schwerelos“
2001/11 „Penthesilea Fragmente“ – nach Heinrich von Kleist
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Penthesilea, Masken
Print
Fine-Art-Print
90 x 90 cm
2011
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Beethoven 01
Painting
Oilpainting
70 x 60 cm
2011
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Dante Alighieri
Print
Fine-Art-Print
70 x 60 cm
2011
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Head 02
Print
Fine-Art-Print
80 x 80 cm
2010
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Der Traum - schwerelos
Media
Computer art
120 x 80 cm
2010
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Traum 08
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Fine-Art-Print
140 x 80 cm
2010
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Der Aufstieg aus den Variationen -M
Media
Computer art
180 x 107 cm
2009
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BA-Ch 63
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Fine-Art-Print
140 x 95 cm
2009
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Ba-CH 66
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Computer art
140 x 95 cm
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Ba-Ch 50
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Computer art
95 x 140 cm
2009
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Print
Fine-Art-Print
95 x 140 cm
2009
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String 30
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Fine-Art-Print
80 x 120 cm
2009
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String 26
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Fine-Art-Print
80 x 120 cm
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String 22
Media
Computer art
168 x 100 cm
2009
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String 27
Media
Computer art
168 x 100 cm
2009
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String 39
Media
Computer art
168 x 100 cm
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String 14
Print
Fine-Art-Print
79 x 120 cm
2009
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Das Parlament
Media
Computer art
150 x 215 cm
2009
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Schwefelrune
Media
Computer art
80 x 120 cm
2009
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Iceland Runes XXV
Media
Computer art
70 x 120 cm
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