
Fenster
1998
Thomas Demand's *Fenster* (Window) presents a meticulously constructed photographic image of a window, built from paper or cardboard models that the artist then photographs before destroying. The work exemplifies Demand's signature practice of recreating banal, everyday spaces in painstaking detail, yet subtly revealing their artificial origins through the absence of texture and imperfection. The result is an uncanny image that hovers between the familiar and the fabricated, prompting reflection on photography's relationship to reality and representation.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 5, 2017
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