Daily #25
Artist
Thomas Demand
(German, born 1964)
Date2015
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsImage: 22 1/8 × 16 1/2 inches (56.2 × 41.91 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (57.15 × 42.55 cm)
Mount: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (57.15 × 42.55 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 19 5/8 × 2 inches (64.14 × 49.85 × 5.08 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (57.15 × 42.55 cm)
Mount: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (57.15 × 42.55 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 19 5/8 × 2 inches (64.14 × 49.85 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.61.8
Signednone visible
Inscribednone visible
MarkingsFramer's label on frame backing board, in blue type: "BONACK / BILDERRAHMUNG / BERLIN / Museumsglas / interferenzoptisch entspiegelt / 45% UV-Schutz"
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/6
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of silver tongs resting on a white plate with a stack of yellow squares resembling slices of cheese. The plate sits on a gray marbled table with a non-descript object in the upper left corner.Gallery LabelHow meaningful are the images we post on social media?
This photograph records a meticulously constructed model of cheese slices; the model itself is based on a cell phone image. After Thomas Demand completed the sculpture, he photographed and destroyed the model. The time and effort required to produce the work stands in stark contrast to the immediacy and mediocrity of the original cell phone image. Demand here calls into question the significance of such images—that may momentarily grab our attention on social media but soon fade from memory—as historical records.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Thomas Demand / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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