From refined metal works to conceptual pieces anchored in everyday forms, small-scale multiples have long been central to Schellmann Art’s programme. These objects offer the impact of sculpture while remaining easy to place, easy to live with, and often surprisingly accessible in price. Below, we highlight the ideas and histories that make these works such compelling additions to a collection.
A spotlight on editioned objects (multiples) in small formats
A Short History of the Artist’s Multiple
Emerging from the experimental climate of Fluxus and early Conceptual Art, multiples proposed a radical idea: that sculptural thinking could circulate widely, beyond the singular object.
Over the decades, artists have embraced editioned objects as a platform for material experimentation and conceptual clarity. From the 1960s onward, multiples have expanded the possibilities of sculpture by using industrial materials, serial production, and accessible formats. Within this broader trajectory, Schellmann has collaborated with artists who explore these ideas in diverse ways — publishing small-scale objects that reflect the inventive spirit of the multiple while remaining closely tied to each artist’s individual practice. Today, these works continue this dialogue between concept, material, and form in compact, concentrated formats.
Duality Table Tableau Exhibition
Why Leading Artists Turn to Multiples
For many artists, small sculptural editions serve as a laboratory — a place to distil ideas with immediacy and precision. Multiples allow them to: Test materials such as polished steel, painted wood, HPL, acrylic, or industrial laminates Isolate signature motifs — a colour system, a stripe, a mirrored surface, a conceptual phrase Translate large-scale sculptural concepts into intimate, collectible forms Extend their work into everyday contexts, where objects can be lived with, handled, and viewed up close.
The result is a category of works that feels both concentrated and expansive. These are portable articulations of an artist’s vision. They are reduced to their most essential form. Whether reflective, graphic, minimalist, or conceptual, these objects invite the collector into the artist’s process at close range.
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