Artist Biography:
Thomas Demand (German, b. 1964), both reproducer and illusionist, is known for his intricate and obsessively perfect hand made landscapes, which he then photographs. Conceptually Demand is a sculptor as much as he is a photographer, a documentarian whose life-size reconstructions, present only in his two-dimensional photographs, historicize our contemporary world in cardboard and paper. Demand has exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, MassMOCA, The Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and is currently the focus of his largest retrospective at Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

About the Work:
While the range of Demand's architectural types and subject matter has gradually expanded over time, his obsessive portrayal of the interior is perfectly encapsulated in Detail X, Still Life on Office Desk. The work depicts the mundane contents of an ordinary home desk: paper, scissors, and glue, all in drab colors on a dark wooden platform. Toying perhaps with the traditional artist materials, Demand here has not once, but twice, reproduced this "craft" table and coolly disquieted the real and the artificial.

Market Information:
Demand's large-scale work always sells to the highest bidder, often in the $100,000 range! Detail X offers the Demand admirer an affordable way to appreciate this contemporary master, and with a beautiful example of his oeuvre!