“Schutte’s art is unpleasant. But it is also comedic, in the battle-ready, pompous warriors, with bottle caps for helmets and poles for weapons, grim dehumanising beings made to heroically fight a battle for freedom they can never win; in existences inextricably linked together and comically pretentious in their lack of awareness, pathetic in their…”
Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Thomas Schutte: United Enemies, 2017, p.15.