Thomas Demand, Landing, 2006, C-Print, framed, approx. 290 x 180 cm, © Thomas Demand, VG Bild Kunst, Bonn / DACS, London 2006

DUBLIN, IRELAND.- An exhibition of work by one of Germany ’s most innovative contemporary artists, Thomas Demand, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 28 February 2007. L’Esprit d’Escalier presents an overview of Demand’s recent work and comprises 24 large-scale photographic pieces, plus a new screening device, designed by Caruso St. John Architects, London, specially for this exhibition at IMMA to show the work Rolltreppe (Escalator), 2000. Ranging from 1995 to date, the exhibition presents such familiar works as Archiv (Archive), 1995. Others have never been shown before - including Landing, 2006, Demand’s photographic response to a mishap in January 2006 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge when a visitor fell down a staircase, crashing into three 18th-century oriental vases, among the most important artifacts at the museum, smashing them into hundreds of pieces.. lire la suite de l'article sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19436