1. Thomas Cyrill Demand was born on 1964 and is a German sculptor and photographer.
16 Facts About Thomas Demand
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Thomas Demand makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings.
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Thomas Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich in 1992.
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Thomas Demand makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings.
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Thomas Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process.
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One notable exception is his large scale model for Grotto, inspired by a postcard of a Mallorcan grotto Thomas Demand has never visited, which was later exhibited.
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In 2011, Thomas Demand created Metzler-Saal, his largest site-specific work to date.
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The closest Thomas Demand has ever come to depicting people are the cut-out silhouettes of politicians and heads of state depicted in the picture frames arranged on Sir Edward Heath's grand piano.
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Thomas Demand cites Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha as sources of inspiration.
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Thomas Demand has experimented with film in works such as Tunnel, a tracking shot from a driver's perspective through an empty tunnel lined by concrete pillars; the tunnel is modelled on the Paris underpass where Princess Diana died.
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In Rain, Thomas Demand painstakingly re-created the effect of raindrops falling onto a hard surface, using cellophane candy wrappers and a sound track of eggs frying.
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The publication featured both interviews by and with Thomas Demand, including a conversation between the artist and film director Todd Solondz.
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Thomas Demand has been a frequent contributor and feature in the magazine, for instance in the form of a 2008 interview with fellow artist Collier Schorr.
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Thomas Demand used to share this workspace with Tacita Dean and Olafur Eliasson.
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Thomas Demand represented Germany at the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2004.
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Thomas Demand participated in the Gwangju Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, in the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, and the Carnegie International.