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Thomas Demand.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Thomas Demand (2000-2001 : Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain) Exhibition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demand, Thomas, 1964---Exhibitions.
- Demand, Thomas.
- Demand, Thomas, 1964-.
- Architectural photography--Exhibitions.
- Architectural photography.
- Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Paper sculpture--Exhibitions.
- Paper sculpture.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2000.
- Summary:
- Originally trained as a sculptor, Thomas Demand approaches photography as a means of preserving ephemeral paper constructions but inevitably the camera becomes central to his creative process.
- At first glance, Demand's works seem to present fragments of a hyperreal and familiar place but, before long, they reveal their true identity: 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 Plexiglas, which underscores the materiality of the photographic object. For each of his reproductions, Demand constructs life-size models using paper and cardboard, and these forms always allow signs of their true nature to show through.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Text by Francesco Bonami, Régis Durand, and François Quintin (on dustjacket spine).
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, Nov. 24, 2000-Feb. 11, 2001.
- ISBN:
- 0500974950
- OCLC:
- 45767214
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