The artist constructs a model from cardboard, referring to a real or imaginary image, then he make a photograph of the model, which is to be destroyed afterwards. Thomas Demand, born in 1964 in Munich, is among the most outstanding artists of our times, primarily a sculptor-slash-photographer, active also as a curator. Demand began his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1987-90), but it was at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf (1990-2) and Goldsmith's College in London (1993-4), where his artistic language has been finally shaped. Instead of the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher, an origin of the Düsseldorf School of Photography and it's deadpan aesthetics, Thomas Demand was trained in sculpture under Fritz Schwegler - that's why his work can be regarded both in terms of photography, sculpture or installation. Critically extolled since the mid-90s, Demand has been a
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Born in 1962 in Tokyo, the artist received his education from the the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining BFA in painting (1986), later completed by PhD degree (1993). His iconography, full of equally cute and psychedelic representations, is often seen as a weird amalgam of East and West mass culture, inspired by anime and manga, comics and cartoons, as well as the American Pop Art. Takashi Murakami has conquered both international art scene and commercial media, exhibiting his work since 1988. Some of his first shows were "Jan Hoet's Vision" (1991) presented in Fukuoka and Ishikawa, followed by the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), "Cities on the move" (1997-8) curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru, Biennale in Lyon (2000), and many others. In 2000, he made an exhibition "Superflat" at the Parco Gallery in Tokyo, contextualizing the term that became a designation for his individual style. Currently his work is on view at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (until March
Born in 1962 in Tokyo, the artist received his education from the the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining BFA in painting (1986), later completed by PhD degree (1993). His iconography, full of equally cute and psychedelic representations, is often seen as a weird amalgam of East and West mass culture, inspired by anime and manga, comics and cartoons, as well as the American Pop Art. Takashi Murakami has conquered both international art scene and commercial media, exhibiting his work since 1988. Some of his first shows were "Jan Hoet's Vision" (1991) presented in Fukuoka and Ishikawa, followed by the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), "Cities on the move" (1997-8) curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru, Biennale in Lyon (2000), and many others. In 2000, he made an exhibition "Superflat" at the Parco Gallery in Tokyo, contextualizing the term that became a designation for his individual style. Currently his work is on view at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (until March