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Thomas Demand — Three Garages
Thomas Demand

Three Garages

Thomas Demand's *Three Garages* is a large-scale chromogenic print mounted using the Diasec process, which fuses the photograph to a acrylic glass surface, lending the image a sleek, luminous quality. The work exemplifies Demand's signature practice of meticulously constructing life-size paper and cardboard models of found spaces before photographing and destroying them, resulting in images that appear eerily familiar yet devoid of human presence. The depiction of the mundane suburban garage becomes, through this process, a meditation on memory, simulation, and the uncanny relationship between representation and reality.

Medium
chromogenic print, Diasec mounted

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 15, 2015

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Thomas Demand, Three Garages

Thomas Demand's *Three Garages* is a large-scale chromogenic print mounted using the Diasec process, which fuses the photograph to a acrylic glass surface, lending the image a sleek, luminous quality. The work exemplifies Demand's signature practice of meticulously constructing life-size paper and cardboard models of found spaces before photographing and destroying them, resulting in images that appear eerily familiar yet devoid of human presence. The depiction of the mundane suburban garage becomes, through this process, a meditation on memory, simulation, and the uncanny relationship between representation and reality.

Medium
chromogenic print, Diasec mounted
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Clinical Mood, Diasec Mounted, Conceptual Photography, Architectural Subject, German Artist, Contemporary Photographer, Large Format Photography, Male Artist, Cool Tones, Contemporary Artist, Paper Sculpture, Chromogenic Print, Deadpan Aesthetic, Large Format, Late 20th Century, Established Artist, Neutral Tones, Cool Color Palette, Constructed Reality

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