Thomas Demand (b. 1964)

Büro

Details

Thomas Demand (b. 1964)
Büro
signed, numbered and dated 'Thomas Demand 1995 5/5' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print on photographic paper and Diasec
72¼ x 94½ in. (184 x 240 cm.)
Executed in 1995. This work is number five from an edition of five.

Provenance

Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Literature

F. Bonami, F. Quintin and R. Durand, Thomas Demand, Paris 2000, pp. 8-9 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Kunsthalle Zurich; and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Thomas Demand, March-September 1998

Lot Essay

Each of Thomas Demand's life-sized sets are entirely constructed from paper. Modeled with excruciating detail from Archive photos, Demand chooses to reconstruct 'crime scenes' with forensic accuracy: each treated with the same documentary sense of suspicion, suspension and qualm.

Büro is the remnants of the Stasi (Secret Police) HQ after it was raided by angry East German mobs searching for their personal files during the iron curtain collapse in 1989. Today everyone has the right to see there own file and copies can be ordered from the government.

(c) Patricia Ellis 'Notorious'.

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