Thomas Demand - Photographs London Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Victoria Miro, London

  • Exhibited

    Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Thomas Demand, 24 November 2000–4 February 2001 (another example exhibited)
    It Must Be Abstract, It Must Change, It Must Give Pleasure, York Art Gallery, York, 22 September–19 November 2001
    A Private Affair, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 28 January–5 May 2012

  • Literature

    Thomas Demand, Paris and London: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Thames & Hudson, 2000, pp. 26–27
    B. Colomina, A. Kluge, Thomas Demand, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006, p. 65.

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Constellation is a projection of the sky over Switzerland on 12 January 2300 – in other words, 300 years to the day after the opening of the Zurich show. In its first version, at least. I use the same principle in another piece entitled Constellation, which will be presented at the Fondation Cartier. It represents the sky over Paris on 23 November 2300. Photography is always supposed to describe the past, never the future. I wanted to do the opposite. As for the date, why 300 years? Because 2300 is sufficiently remote so that no one can imagine living then, but not so remote that we have no idea of how people will live. Moreover, it is very likely that photography won’t be there then either. I had wanted to take a photo of the future for years, and it took me two hours to do it.”

    (Thomas Demand, in Thomas Demand, Paris and London: Fondation Cartier pour L’art contemporain and Thames & Hudson, 2000, pp. 26–27)

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Constellation (Paris Edition)

2000
Digital colour coupler print, Diasec mounted.
130 × 180 cm (51 1/8 × 70 7/8 in)
Signed, dated and numbered in ink on the aluminum support on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 6.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Photographs

8 November 2012
London