Thomas Demand — Processo Grottesco / Yellowcake - SIGNED

Thomas Demand — Processo Grottesco / Yellowcake – SIGNED

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In 2006, in order to realize the photographic work Grotto, Thomas Demand used a postcard as his starting point in recreating a grotto located on the island Maiorca. Employing 30 tons of grey cardboard, shaped with the help of a computer and laid out to form a stratification with 900,000 sections, the artist recreated the rock chamber, stalactites and stalagmites displayed on the postcard in order to photograph the work.

For the opening of Fondazione Prada’s new venue, this grotto motif returns as Processo grottesco (Grotesque Process), for which Demand sets documentary materials including postcards, books, tour guides, catalogue illustrations, various advertisements and the massive reconstruction of the Spanish grotto alongside the photograph Grotto. In this manner, the artist allows visitors to explore the creative process that led to the realization of the photograph, opening a window onto the way the artwork has been transformed over the course of time through continuous investigation. The grotto theme is a recurring subject in the history of art and architecture, and implies a provocative, bizarre approach, typical of painting techniques of the 1500s known as ‘grottesca’ (grotesque).

Description

Thomas Demand and Germano Celant:. Thomas Demand: Processo Grottesco / Yellowcake – both books signed!

Milano: Fondazione Prada, 2007. 2 heavy 8vo hardcover volumes in original slipcase as issued. Profusedly illustrated with text by Germano Celant, Carlo Bonini, Alex Farquaharson, and Robert Storr. Illustrated throughout in color. Both books are in near fine or fine condition with just a hint of wear to front corners of the bigger volume (see photos) and housed in a near fine or fine slipcase with only minor shelfwear

First edition – BOTH BOOKS SIGNED IN HAND BY THOMAS DEMAND and very scarce thus