Thomas Demand: B&K+: Bienal de Sao Paulo 2004 - Hardcover

Lootsma, Bart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3883758760 ISBN 13: 9783883758763

Publisher: Walther König, Köln, 2005

Synopsis

Conceptualized by Thomas Demand himself, this book includes three components: a newspaper, a magazine and a book--each of them published on different paper. The newspaper presents the artist's older works; the magazine, printed on glossy paper, introduces new photo works in color and stills from the film Trick; the book portion documents the exhibition architecture. B&K + is a small book, but one of the most comprehensive views of Demand's work per square footage.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Demand was born in Munich in 1964. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, the Cite des Arts, Paris, and Goldsmiths College, London. Demand begins by translating a preexisting image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model he makes out of colored paper and cardboard. He recreates a room, a parking lot, a staircase, a landscape--then he photographs the model and destroys it. Demand's photographs appear at once compellingly real and strangely artificial. Since their subjects--handcrafted facsimiles of both architectural spaces and natural environments--are themselves built in the image of other images, the photographs are three times removed from the scenes they seek to depict. Combining craftsmanship and conceptualism in equal parts, Demand pushes the medium of photography toward uncharted frontiers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3883758760
• ISBN 13: 9783883758763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88
• Editor: Fogle Douglas, Friedel Helmut