Thomas Demand - Flügel (Grand Piano) - image-1

Lot 635 D

Thomas Demand - Flügel (Grand Piano)

Auction 1032 - overview Cologne
31.05.2014, 11:00 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 60.000 € - 80.000 €
Result: 79.300 € (incl. premium)

Thomas Demand

Flügel (Grand Piano)
1993/2005

Cibachrome print on plastic board, face-mounted to plexiglass. 66.7 x 155.5 cm (81 x 170 cm). Signed, dated, editioned and inscribed 'Reprint' on the subframe on the reverse of the mount. Numbered 3/5.

"Flügel, one of Demand's very few photographs to show individuals, gives us all the participants in a given person's (presumably the artist's own) life story, without supplying the narrative thread that ties them together as the reason for their atomized cohabitation on top of the piano. By not telling a story and yet giving us all of the setting, Demand pulls us in." (quoted from Ulrich Baer, End of a world: On Thomas Demand's Photography, In: Roxana Marcoci, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Demand, exhib.cat. Museum of Modern Art New York, New York 2005, pp. 88/89)

Provenance

Private collection, Bavaria; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature

Roxana Marcoci, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Demand, exhib.cat. Museum of Modern Art New York, New York 2005, ill. p. 38