Thomas Demand

Originally trained as sculptor, Thomas Demand approaches photography as a means of preserving his painstakingly created, ephemeral paper constructions. At no time do his forms strive for the perfect illusion, his is a wholly artificial world reduced to generic forms. Large immaculate photographs of interiors and architectural exteriors – a world peopled with inanimate objects and bathed in uniform lighting – are mounted on Plexiglass, which underscores the materiality of the photographic object. For each of his reproductions, Demand constructs life-size models using paper and cardboard.

Text: Bonami Francesco. cm 21,5×28; pp. 128; COL; hardcover with dust jacket. Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.

ISBN: 9780500974957| 0500974950

ID: AM-6418

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Originally trained as sculptor, Thomas Demand approaches photography as a means of preserving his painstakingly created, ephemeral paper constructions. At no time do his forms strive for the perfect illusion, his is a wholly artificial world reduced to generic forms. Large immaculate photographs of interiors and architectural exteriors – a world peopled with inanimate objects and bathed in uniform lighting – are mounted on Plexiglass, which underscores the materiality of the photographic object. For each of his reproductions, Demand constructs life-size models using paper and cardboard.

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