Thomas Demand - Hardcover

Colomina, Beatriz; Kluge, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905190085 ISBN 13: 9781905190089

Publisher: Serpentine Gallery, 2006

Synopsis

Thomas Demand is one of the most celebrated contemporary photo artists. At first sight, Demand’s pictures, say of a kitchen, an elevator, or a car park, seem like depictions of everyday places. Yet on closer inspection they turn out to be reconstructions of reality: Demand creates life-size environments made of paper and cardboard and accurate down to the smallest details, photographs these "re-creations" and then destroys them. The pictures that arise in this way put their finger squarely on the drab aesthetics of the modern office world and architecture. Demand’s sculptural and somehow filmic simulations, completely devoid of people, lead us into a world of models, in which a "faked" reality blends with the memory of a real reality to penerate vividly cool images and to investigate the concept of virtual reality that plays such a key role in our technological multimedia age.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Text by Beatriz Colomina
Interview between Thomas Demand and Alexander Kluge

Book design by Supermarket / Naomi Mizusaki

About the Author:

Thomas Demand, born in Munich in 1964, studied in Munich and Düsseldorf and at Goldsmith’s College, London. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the US. Beatrice Colomina, Spanish architect and author, is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University and the author of numerous publications. Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, German writer, moviemaker and media manager; co-founder of the 1960’s New German Film movement, chief producer for VOX TV. Exhibition Serpentine Gallery, London June 6 – Aug. 20, 2006

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpentine Gallery
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1905190085
• ISBN 13: 9781905190089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144