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The North America Office of Duesseldorf Tourism and Duesseldorf Airport announce: New Art Exhibit: “Modellstudien” by Thomas Demand at Raketenstation Hombroich
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University 50, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
University 50, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Düsseldorf, Germany (PRWEB) September 15, 2015 -- In his large-scale close-up photographs of models made by the influential Japanese architects SANAA and the American architect John Lautner, Demand guides our vision to the details. The material characteristics, the state and the way the models have been made are the defining features of the artist’s nigh-abstract compositions. Inscriptions, marks of wear and tear and the impression of sculptural depth evoked by the incident light are occasional reminders that these are images of architectural models.

The model made of paper and cardboard as a form of gaining and communicating knowledge

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The series came about in the course of Thomas Demand’s working dialogue with architecture. It was in 2011, during a stay at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, that he stumbled on John Lautner’s models. The works that Demand completed under that influence were represented in a small selection at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 2012. John Lautner became known above all for his spectacular residential houses in greater Los Angeles, not least by their entering cinema history as locations (Diamonds Are Forever, Charlie’s Angels, The Big Lebowski). For the past three years, Demand has also been creating a record of models being made at SANAA, the office of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryūe Nishizawa. They have been formative for a number of years in the debate as to how art spaces should be designed, with solutions such as the building for the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishikawa or the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York as cases in point. Both, Lautner’s models and those of the SANAA office were and are made chiefly as part of the process of project development and have the function and the importance usually given to the drawing or sketch. Thus they are not properly display models for clients or exhibitions, but an essential part of the process by which a design comes about.

Thomas Demand’s Modellstudien are devoted to the model made of paper and cardboard as a form of gaining and communicating knowledge. To that extent, he remains true to his established artistic procedure. This consists in putting characteristic media-shaped and propagated societal scenes centre-stage as photographs of cardboard replicas. But here he varies upon a practice where both the physical qualities of the locations copied and the photographic composition are secondary to the significance of the familiar images; in the Modellstudien, the material and the composition have become defining features.

For Demand in his Modellstudien and for the Insel Hombroich Foundation alike, both the relationship between photography, the model and architecture, and the processes of translation between these different media hold an ongoing and special interest. The pavilions Erwin Heerich designed for Museum Insel Hombroich are only one visible testimony to the Foundation’s sense of the relationship between model, sculpture and architecture.

The book, Thomas Demand: Model Studies is being released as this exhibition opens by the Cologne publisher Walther König, with a text by Joseph Grima in German and English (136 pp., 50 colour illustrations, soft-bound, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-780-1).

For more information on the exhibit and the accompanying program, please visit: http://44963.seu1.cleverreach.com/m/6320446/.

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Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourism GmbH is the visitors and convention bureau of the city of Düsseldorf. Its responsibilities include tourism and city marketing, as well as conference and meeting marketing, hotel reservation services, fairs and convention services, city event ticket sales and advance ticket reservations. For more information, visit http://www.visitduesseldorf.de.

Düsseldorf Airport, Germany’s Next Generation HubTM, offers several non-stop flights from US cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Ft. Myers, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark), as well as convenient connections to many European cities. For more information about the airport, visit http://www.dus.com.

Rainer Perry, US Representative, Düsseldorf Tourism & Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), http://www.visitduesseldorf.de, +1 6462076406, [email protected]

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Kindergarten 22, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Kindergarten 22, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Concannon #37, 2011, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Concannon #37, 2011, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Museum H 64, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Museum H 64, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Kindergarten 22, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Concannon #37, 2011, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Museum H 64, 2015, Framed Pigment Print © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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