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Art | 9 Mar 2012
Book: The Dailies by Thomas Demand

Book: The Dailies by Thomas Demand

Artist Thomas Demand partnered with London-based publishers Mack Books to create a limited edition catalogue for his project, entitled 'The Dailies', which is currently on show at Sydney's Commercial Travellers' Association (CTA) building

Bound in faux leather, with a magnetised closing system, 'The Dailies' was designed by Naomi Mizusaki of Supermarket, who has worked with Demand on a number of his books

The substantial 32-page volume has been leporello-bound, allowing it to be displayed in a circular fashion...

... mimicking the shape of the CTA building. Its concertina pages, a nod to the fluted pillars which make up the base of the building, come together to form a 16-pointed star

A spread from 'The Dailies'; pictured here is 'Daily #12' by Thomas Demand

'Daily #10' by Thomas Demand

In each room of the exhibition in the CTA building there is a framed photograph of one of Demand's cardboard and paper sculptures. Some 
of the photographs speak of transient urban scenes, while other constructions are places of passage, not residence

'Daily #9' by Thomas Demand

To print the actual photographs, Demand tracked down a couple living on an island near Seattle who are among the last few practitioners of the slow, labour-intensive, dye-transfer printing method

'Daily #18' by Thomas Demand, 2012

'The Dailies' features a collaboration with the writer Louis Begley, author of About Schmidt, who has penned a short story about a commercial traveller's dream-state visit to the CTA. Fragments of the story, Gregor in Sydney, are also printed in each room in the exhibition

'Dailies #8' by Thomas Demand, 2009

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