Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
10 October 2013
Thomas Demand: Models of Perception
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Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
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Mellon Senior Fellow, Antoine PiconThomas Demand, Adrian Forty, Rahul Mehrotra, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
January 2013 to December 2013
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December 2013
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
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John Bird fonds
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The John Bird fonds documents the professional practice of the Westmount-based architect, and includes drawings and photographs of 24 architectural projects carried out in and around Montréal, Québec between 1954 and 1992. The fonds also contains a number of published articles that document John Bird's professional activities. Key projects that are represented include the Canadian Technical Tape Building, St. Laurent (1955-1963), Saint Gabriel's Church, Montréal (1959-1960), and Saint John Brebeuf Church, Lasalle (1962-1966). The fonds also includes numerous projects for Toronto-Dominion Bank buildings (1959-1992) as well as residential designs completed for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (1956-1969).
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John Bird fonds
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The John Bird fonds documents the professional practice of the Westmount-based architect, and includes drawings and photographs of 24 architectural projects carried out in and around Montréal, Québec between 1954 and 1992. The fonds also contains a number of published articles that document John Bird's professional activities. Key projects that are represented include the Canadian Technical Tape Building, St. Laurent (1955-1963), Saint Gabriel's Church, Montréal (1959-1960), and Saint John Brebeuf Church, Lasalle (1962-1966). The fonds also includes numerous projects for Toronto-Dominion Bank buildings (1959-1992) as well as residential designs completed for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (1956-1969).
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55 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Milano : Skira, 2002.
Thomas Demand / [mostra e catalogo a cura di Marcella Beccaria].
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55 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Milano : Skira, 2002.
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Thomas Demand.
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81 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Tokyo : Kodansha, 2012.
Thomas Demand.
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81 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Tokyo : Kodansha, 2012.
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174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Köln : Walther König ; New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor] outside Europe, ©2007.
Thomas Demand / Hans Ulrich Obrist ; [translation, Matthew Gaskins].
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174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Köln : Walther König ; New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor] outside Europe, ©2007.
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Thomas Demand.
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109 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Arles : Actes Sud ; Paris : Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2000.
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Arles : Actes Sud ; Paris : Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2000.
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160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 x 25 cm
Dublin : Irish Museum of Modern Art ; Köln : König ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution (outside Europe), D.A.P., ©2007.
Thomas Demand : l'ésprit d'escalier / texts by Dave Eggers [and others] ; with a last word by Enrique Juncosa ; [editor, Karen Sweeney].
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160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 x 25 cm
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Dublin : Irish Museum of Modern Art ; Köln : König ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution (outside Europe), D.A.P., ©2007.
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143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 35 cm
London : Serpentine Gallery ; Munich : In cooperation with Schirmer/Mosel, ©2006.
Thomas Demand / [essay by Beatriz Colomina ; a conversation between Alexander Kluge and Thomas Demand ; Serpentine Gallery].
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143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 35 cm
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London : Serpentine Gallery ; Munich : In cooperation with Schirmer/Mosel, ©2006.