His creations are based on things he saw and photographs he took while travelling and walking the street. Demand describes the series as like Haiku poetry, simple fragments strung together to inspire reflection.
Sculpteur de formation, Thomas Demand occupe une place tout à fait à part dans la photographie allemande.
Thomas Demand provokes confrontations between photography's poles of fact and fiction. True-to-size paper models are photographed and then scaled down, while traces of event and person are systematically removed, leaving...
Stairs, ladders and lifts are the motifs of Thomas Demand's latest monograph, L'Esprit d'Escalier, which is published on the occasion of his show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art...
Essay by Roxana Marcoci. Short story by Jeffrey Eugenides.
They thought they'd be friends forever.
Thomas Demand is regarded for his work in photography and film as being at the forefront of contemporary art, and this publication presents an overview of his career to date....
Published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand's work at Belgium museum M Leuven in October 2020, this book focuses on Demand's relationship to architecture and his engagement with architects over almost fifteen years ...
Thomas Demand
The volumes contain a critical text by Germano Celant, iconographical documentation including postcards, works of art, drawings and photographs dedicated to the grotto theme, essays by Robert Storr and Alex Farquharson, and an article by ...
Thomas Demand has received widespread recognition for photography characterized by a continuous shifting between reality and fiction. Photography, sculpture and architecture are combined in his works, often as life-size cardboard...
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.
Thomas Demand