Artist of the Week: Thomas Demand
Biography:
- Born in 1964 in Munich, Germany
- Attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munchen from 1987-1989
- Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1989-1992
- Goldsmiths College in London from 1993-1994
- "Originally trained as a sculptor, he developed a photographic practice involving the construction of life-size models of architectural interiors out of paper and cardboard. The range of architectural types and subject matter represented by these models- many of which are based on mass-media imagery- has gradually expanded over time." -Guggenheim Museum
- Taken away from reality, he uses cardboard and paper models to create "tension between the fabricated and the real."
- Starts with a pre-existing photograph of a real location, from mass media.
- His images represent large scale mass media photographs, but actually show life-sized models.
- "Demand knowingly uses the traditional role of photography as a faithful transcriber of the world to throw his subject's artificiality into doubt. This confounding of references is such that the very idea of an original recedes completely."- Carnegie International
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