Thomas Demand, one of my favorite photographers, has this exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. His latest work including Landing-2006; is a response to a mishap at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge when a visitor fell down a staircase, crashing into three 18th century oriental vases smashing them into hundreds of pieces. I'm most curious about how the museum management reacted?
Born in 1964 in Munich, Demand is best known for his unique approach to photography, and the subjects of large-format photographs are painstakingly constructed three-dimensional devoid of human presence. Once they have been photographed, the models are destroyed. Demand has recently begun to make 35 mm films, setting his cinematic still images in motion.
Now lives in Berlin, his work was once the subject of a mid-career survey at the Museum of Modern Art New York. He has exhibited widely and recent solo shows include the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Museum for Moderne Kunst, Germany.
