Thomas Demand Schilf, 2025

Thomas Demand's Schilf uses a new technique of UV print on a copper plate. The motif does not seem to have any apparent narrative content: tufts of reeds rising from the water are a familiar sight. Yet, the image can be read as water or sky, as plants or their reflection. In a self-referential gesture, then, the work alludes to Demand’s general practice of creating works at the threshold of two-dimensional image and three-dimensional object, but also to his monumental Pond, 2020, a work in reference to Claude Monet’s gardens of waterlilies at Giverny.


TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
The copper plate is primed with a thin gesso base, onto which the UV-print is made. It is then sealed by a protective varnish.