Daily #17, 2011
Seek refuge from the recent deluge that is British Spring time in Sprüth Magers London outpost this month and be amazed at the new series of work by German artist, Thomas Demand. Using the simple materials of paper
and card, Demand reproduces familiar environments and settings in extraordinary
detail and depth - in The Dailies these everyday scenarios
are photographed, recording their deliberate flaws where a corner edge has
not been glued down flat or a join is not abutted as it would normally be. The
minimal arrangements scrutinise and magnify the beauty of both the artist’s practice as well
as that of the everyday – authenticity and artifice are challenged and the rare
technique of dye transfer printing, which Demand employs in this series giving a thick and saturated print surface, only
affirms these themes to produce an image almost suspended in time and isolated
in the world that it was inspired by.
The Dailies is simultaneously being
exhibited at the 25th Kaldor Public Art Project, Sydney Australia.
The Dailies
14th April – 19th May 2012
Sprüth Magers
7A Grafton Street
London W1S 4EJ
Images courtesy of Sprüth Magers Berlin London
