thomas demand

THOMAS DEMAND

BACKGROUND

Thomas Demand was born in Munich, Germany in 1964

• Lives in Berlin and he teaches at the university of fine arts, Hamburg

• Kunstakadmie Dusseldorf the beginning of his career as an artist

BACKGROUND

• Here he began documenting his work through photography.

• Bienal de São Paulo in 2004.

• Gretty Research Institute.

• Since his first exhibition in Munich he has exhibited in galleries around the world.

PROCESS

• Thomas Demand ‘Depicts depictions of the world’

• OVAL OFFICE

• Visible

• Well known

• Aware of anything missing or out of place

PROCESS

PROCESS

• Thomas Demand - ‘process is part of the work’

• Three elements

1. Research

2. Realisation of the sculpture

3. The documentation of the sculpture

PROCESS

• PACIFIC SUN

• Recreated the video

• Pacific Sun cruise ship hit by rough seas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPOxlP4Xkl4

• Made entirely out of paper and card

• 2,400 still images

PROCESS

PROCESS

• 100 seconds long

• Sculptures destroyed when video was completed.

• Video clip of the exhibition of the video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bg8BXUWYk

The Dailies

• Project 25 for Kaldor public art projects was 'The Dailies' exhibited at the commercial travellers association centre, Sydney, Australia,

• 23 March - 22 April 2012

The Dailies

• In this public art project, Thomas Demand created an installation which made very effective use of this unusual circular building in the heart of Sydney.

• The building was built in the 1970's by Bauhaus influenced architect, Harry Seidler for the commercial traveller's association.

The Dailies

• For this exhibition Demand took over a floor of the building which comprises of 16 bedrooms arranged in a circle around a central corridor. In each bedroom Demand hung one of his series of photographs which he calls 'The Dailies' over the bed. This is a series of work he has created over a number of years. He takes photographs, little snapshots of daily life with whatever camera he has to hand. Demand has compared these photographs to haiku, as they are like a beginning, the seed of a narrative.

The Dailies

The Dailies

• These original photographs he then recreated in his trademarked style with paper and photographed these reproductions. The photographs of the reproductions are then hung over the beds in the rooms of the centre.

• In each room he also changed tiny little details of the room and other details have been included, for instance the writer Louis Begley wrote a short story for the installation entitled 'Gregor in Sydney' extracts of which are included in menu cards placed in the rooms. Also, Miuccia Prada created a scent for the rooms which was used throughout.

The Dailies

The Dailies

• The building is located in the heart of Sydney but because it is well insulated, the bustle of the city streets does not reach the rooms, they are cut off from the noise.

• The arrangement of the bedrooms around a circular corridor, each one almost exactly like the last except for the picture over the bed and the tiny details of the room, gives a disorienting affect.

The Dailies