post_modellismus – models in art - krinzinger projekte - Galerie ...

Thomas Demand
Five Drafts (Simulator), 2004
5 digital prints on hand-made paper, 38,5 x 38 cm each, ed. 60
Our eyes scan and scrutinize the objects, the space, the architecture. We think we
remember, but the moment of familiarity is short and gives way to a strange sense of
unfamiliarity. Although this ambiguity is unresolved, we know for certain that Thomas
Demand’s images are fed from two main sources. One of them is the photographic
print, which he chooses from his archive of historical, political, architectural and criminalist
documentary photography, possibly even a photograph, which once belonged
to the stream of pictures passing in front of our eyes. The other source is the sculptural
object, space or architecture built according to the photographed ‘model’. ... In the
reflection of the ‘false truth’ of his photographs, we must accept the fact that our
perception – and with it our consciousness – is fragile and therefore possibly the
usual form of modern existence. - Eckhard Schneider, In the Reflection of False Verity,
in Phototrophy, ed. Eckhard Schneider (Schirmer / Mosel, 2004).
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