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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Thomas Demand

Artist Thomas Demand reflects on the Gubbio studiolo in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's the promise that with the genius of the human brain one can somehow cage the horrors of the daily life."

Thomas Demand reflects on the Gubbio studiolo in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Thomas Demand, born in 1964, is a German photographer and sculptor.

A color photograph of a paper construction of a storage room containing art

Thomas Demand (German, born 1964)

Vault, 2012

Chromogenic print; 86 5/8 × 109 in. (220 × 276.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund; Alfred Stieglitz Society, The Fledgling Fund, through Diana Barrett and Robert Vila, Joseph M. and Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc. and Hideyuki Osawa Gifts, 2013 (2013.163) © Thomas Demand / Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Art Mentioned

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Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, Francesco di Giorgio Martini Italian, Walnut, beech, rosewood, oak and fruitwoods in walnut base, Italian, Gubbio
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1478–82