Un vaste catalogue en français pour accompagner une exposition rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Thomas Demand au Jeu de Paume, Paris (février-mai 2023), dans le cadre d'une tournée mondiale.
Comprend des oeuvres réalisées au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, montrant l'étendue de la pratique multimédia ambitieuse de Demand et son engagement dans l'histoire et la culture visuelle.
Comprend de nouvelles histoires courtes des auteurs primés Ali Smith et Maylis de Kerangal, ainsi que des essais critiques de Douglas Fogle et Margaret Iversen.
Ce catalogue en français accompagne une grande exposition rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Thomas Demand au Jeu de Paume, à Paris, dans le cadre d'une tournée mondiale. Thomas Demand a passé les deux dernières décennies à réunir ses talents de sculpteur et de photographe pour capturer la boucle de rétroaction entre le monde que nous habitons et les documents photographiques qui sont à la base de notre culture contemporaine de l'image. Rassemblant un large éventail de photographies qui couvrent l'ensemble de sa carrière, The Stutter of History offre à la fois une vue d'ensemble de la façon dont l'artiste voit le monde et une leçon sur la façon dont nous pouvons aborder l'assaut d'événements historiques que nous consommons à travers le monde des images.
Ce livre complet montre l'ampleur et la profondeur de l'accomplissement artistique de Demand, démontrant en un seul volume pourquoi il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands artistes contemporains du monde.
L'ouvrage comprend de nouvelles histoires courtes écrites par les auteurs primés Ali Smith et Maylis de Kerangal en réponse à une oeuvre de Demand, ainsi que des essais éclairants de Douglas Fogle, commissaire de l'exposition, et de la critique Margaret Iversen. Tous les textes sont publiés en langue française.
Co-publié avec le Jeu de Paume.
The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand's renowned practice of constructing, photographing, and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures minor, everyday moments based on iPhone photographs. Viewed together, they are an inventory of traces - signs of consumption, evidence of people just departed or out of sight, spectres of things left behind. Demand describes the series as a form of Haiku: simple fragments strung together to inspire reflection and help us take stock of our daily lives. Just as they trigger deja vu through their performed, minimal repetition, they ask us to look again, and afresh, to discover an ordinary yet enlightening beauty.
This new volume brings together the entirety of Demand's series to date in an expanded edition interwoven with an extended essay by critic Hal Foster.
This comprehensive catalogue accompanies a worldwide touring retrospective exhibition of Thomas Demand's work, focussing on four important areas of his oeuvre. Thomas Demand has spent the last two and a half decades bringing together his talents as both a sculptor and a photographer to capture the feedback loop between the world we inhabit and the photographic documents of it which lie at the root of our contemporary image culture. Bringing together a wide-ranging survey of photographs that span the arc of his career, The Stutter of History will provide both an overview of the artist's way of seeing the world and lesson in how we might approach the onslaught of historical events that we consume through the world of images. This extensive book displays the breadth and depth of Demand's artistic accomplishment, demonstrating in one volume why he is considered one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. Includes a new short story by award-winning author Ali Smith written in response to a work by Demand, as well as an illuminating essay by Douglas Fogle, curator of the exhibition, and an essay by Margaret
The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat's Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper objects - a legal pad, a paper plate, and a soda jerk hat - which Demand brought to Caruso St John with the simple question: 'Can you make this into architecture?' In response, the architects created a sculptural tripartite folly, a kind of inhabitable still life poised on the area's rolling seaside hillocks, encompassing a meeting room, a kitchen, and a flexible living space which holds a textile work by the artist Rosemarie Trockel.
Inspired by Kvadrat's role as a celebrated textile producer, Demand initially pursued the idea of the tent as an archetypal architectural structure with many iterations across contexts of leisure and shelter, simplicity and grandeur. Translating these concepts into his own artistic idiom of paper, he tasked Caruso St John with materialising this lightness of form, with a touch of his distinctive, duplicitous whimsy. The final building, completed in September 2022, achieves this through a harmonious sequence of steel and fibreglass structures which create their environments through the fall of light and shadow, textured opacity and welcoming transparency.
This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside in-depth illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, Anders Byriel, Emilie Apperce, and Thomas Demand.
Animations accompanies the first museum exhibition to focus on the films and videos of the acclaimed contemporary German artist and photographer Thomas Demand (born 1964). Demand is best known for his large-scale color photographs of objects or sites taken from images in the popular media, which he painstakingly reconstructs in paper. With these new films and videos, Demand has taken this practice to the next stage, extending his investigations in to real time and space by animating his paper constructions. The primary focus of the volume is the two-minute tour de force video entitled «Pacific Sun,» which takes place in a cruise ship bar during a violent storm at sea. This volume--the first to survey Demand's films and videos--brings these latest works back full circle, but as video stills. Also included is a major essay on the artist by the acclaimed photo critic Michael Fried.
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. The starting point is his ongoing series 'Model Studies', in which the concept of the model itself is key, and includes rarely show projects such as Black Label (2009), Embassy (2007), and Nagelhaus (2008).
The book is accompanied by essays from Adam Caruso (Architect and Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich) Maristella Casciato (Curator of Architecture, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) and Emily Pugh (Architectural historian, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles), Aude-Line Duliere (Architect and Professor at the Architectural Association, London), Karen Van Godtsenhoven (Associate curator at the Fashion Institute, Metropolitan Museum, New York), and Valerie Verhack (Curator at M Leuven).
Co-produced with the Fundacion Botin on the occasion of a major solo exhibition at the Centro Botin in Santander, Mundo De Papel demonstrates the elaborate life-sized paper sculptures of internationally renowned artist Thomas Demand in the most ambitious book project of his work yet. Demand's practice is all about paper engineering and the relationship between representation and 'real' events. This extraordinary book takes that dialogue to a new level with the sophisticated use of paper mechanics in the form of pop-ups representing the 8 large pavilions Demand designed to be suspended in the Centro Botin, each of which replicates an urban landscape.
The volume includes a separate book of installation views of the exhibition and a newly commissioned text by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
