Thomas Demand in conversation with Judy Annear, senior curator of photographs. Introduced by Head of International art Tony Bond and well-know collector and art patron John Kaldor.
Thomas Demand is a Berlin-based artist. He is known for his highly luminous and compelling photography of 1:1 models, which he constructs from paper and cardboard. The models are often based on pre-existing photographs or press images and are destroyed once the photograph is taken. Demand's practice interlaces sculpture, architecture and photography and forces us to reconsider our perceptions of a highly mediated world.
Demand studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and at Goldsmiths College in London. He has exhibited extensively internationally, including a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2005. Currently he is a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Demand's work is on display in the new contemporary galleries as part of the John Kaldor Collection.
List of works and installations in order of mention:
Drafting room 1996
Lift 2005
Gangway 2001 http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/L2010.35/
Fondation Cartier, Paris installation 2000-01
Serpentine Gallery installation 2006
Rolltreppe/Escalator 2000 - 35mm film/animation
Recorder 2002 35mm - film/animation
Neue National Galerie installation 2009
Clearing 2003
◇ John Kaldor Family Collection :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/contemporary-art/john-kaldor-family-collection/
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http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
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