Friday, while taking a break from studio work to eat lunch I
re-read what I believe to be an extremely relevant essay to think about with what
is happening right now in Contemporary Art, especially in Photography, and here
is why…
“Like a practitioner of origami, Demand folds paper and
cardboard of every imaginable color and texture to create full-scale
environments. He builds his sets with ingenious skill, constantly checking the
perspective, angle, lighting, and other technical details. Yet, despite their
illusionism, Demand’s staged tableaux reveal the mechanisms of their making.
Minute imperfections – a pencil mark here, an exposed edge there, a wrinkle in
the paper – are deliberately left visible. The lack of detail and cool, uniform
lighting expose the whole as a construction. Once they have been photographed,
the models are destroyed.”
- Paper Moon by
Roxana Marcoci, an introductory essay to Thomas Demand’s 2005 MoMA publication
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