Material Effects

Demand uses photography to document spaces and objects, painstakingly reconstructs the exact image (three-dimensionally) in his studio from paper, then re-photographs. The resultant images have a compelling evenness (and an off-ness), that emphasize the singular, imagistic nature of his final product, as well as foreground a tension between 2 and 3-D (extending to the similarity of the "model" material and that of the photograph itself.)

Thomas Demand
Space Simulator, 2003

Thomas Demand
Kitchen, 2004

Koons uses metal in an imitation of of mylar. While the difference is visually virtually indistinguishable, the materials' properties are exposed in their behaviors (namely inflatibility (or the semblance of) and durability (or the expectation of)).

Jeff Koons
Rabbit, 1986

Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog-Magenta
Palazzo Grassi, 2006

Donovan uses a singular, mass-produced, "functional" object in excess. The individual form (supposedly derived from its function) gives way to new organizations that negate the object's original usefulness, replacing it with a large-scale organic form that articulates questions of sameness and repetition.

Tara Donovan
Transplanted, 2001
Angle View Ripped & Stacked Tarpaper
33' 8 1/4"(H) x 24' 6 1/2"(W) x 2' 8"(D)

Tara Donovan

Untitled, 2003
Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue
Dimensions Variable

Tara Donovan

Haze, 2003
Stacked Clear Plastic Drinking Straws
12' 7"(H) x 42' 2"(W) 7 3/4"(D)