Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand ( born 1964 in Munich) is an artist who faithfully reconstructs the scene and press photographs from paper, to photograph them then. This " second " Photographs are then, after the destruction of the model on display. He studied in Munich, Dusseldorf and London. He lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibition form

Demand supplies of life-size photographs, the grant by their deep hanging inlet into the image space. He also makes analog animated films (35mm).

Operation

After a photographic original or remembered Demand builds a model of paper and cardboard. This model is either created (usually in indoor ) on a scale of 1:1, or (in the case of large outdoor displays architectures) in size, which is to have the subsequent photography. The resulting life photographs are then the final works of art.

Illustrated

As Template Demand uses often older newspaper images. Signs of the event shown are systematically eliminated in the built model; also present on the original photographs. Nevertheless, the image content remains so striking that with knowledge of the photographic pattern, the subject can be clearly made ​​. The image themes presented are socially relevant events that often contain nevertheless a personal connection with the artist.

His understanding of art

Demand does not see himself as a photographer, although this is his exhibition medium. At the same time he is also not exclusively modellers, as the focus of his artistic work on the photographic reproduction is such that it is best described as a reproducer of the media or an illusionist to understand.

Demand dealt earlier with sculptures, but then declined over to cheap materials, mainly paper and cardboard. So he could build his models in a day and therefore throw away without problems again. To document the incurred but quickly ephemeral sculptures, he began to photograph them.

Works and crime scene

• Tunnel ( 1999) recalls a tracking shot through the tunnel where Diana Mountbatten -Windsor died.
• Bathroom (1997 ), the enactment of the photograph that went around the world in connection with the death of Barschel.

Other works

The opened in May 2013 cultivation of the Lenbachhaus in Munich is decorated with a blue lettering Lenbachhaus before the gold-colored facade, the demand from an old copy of the 19th century combined with a moderenen.

Movies on Demand Thomas

• The game with the memory - images The world of Thomas Demand. Documentation, Germany, 2011, 26 min, first broadcast on Arte: June 12, 2011 Written & Directed by Jeremy JP Fekete, Production: rb / arte, Summary of arte, nominated for the 21th German Camera Award 2011 Category: Documentary / documentation " section " Summary (PDF file, 274 kB) by German camera Award, trailer on YouTube.