Thomas Demand. The Mirror Without Memory

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first Russian exhibition of the German artist Thomas Demand "The Mirror Without Memory.".

Borrowing images of certain events from the press and other sources (or arranging for technical filming), Demand reproduces these scenes in real scale from cardboard and paper, making actual sculptures, then photographs them and then destroys them.

The exhibition consists of several fragments and extends over two floors of the Museum. The first floor is dedicated to the reflection on the ideas of model and model, which are in fact the alpha and omega of the art of Demand - one of the most significant photographers of the last decades. Through interaction with architects, Demand comprehensively thematizes the model, its life cycles, internal dynamics, modes of synchronization with physical reality, etc. On the second floor this dialogic energy takes other shapes, and the first thing the viewer sees on his way up the stairs are suspended structures-cinema theatres showing the films of the German director, writer, producer, author of TV programs, public figure and ideologist of the new German cinema Alexander Kluge. These film pavilions, designed by Demand, are soaring models that make a distant reference to the constructivist form. Kluge's films, in turn, are video extensions or video interpretations of the three Demand works on view: The Vault, Five Globes, and Ruin.

Prepared according to the materials of the website Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.