MODEL
A model can be described as an instrument to represent complexity in a filtered fashion , so as to render this complexity more manageable . Models are used in all sorts of domains : in politics , medicine , the financial sector and so on . In this broad sense of the word , models are centre-stage in the work of Thomas Demand . In Model ( 2000 ), an early work , he explicitly develops the concept within his oeuvre for the first time . It involves a photograph of a scale model which in turn shows a scale model . As such this work is a precursor of his series of Model Studies .
Model is based on an existing scale model from the 1930s , which featured as part of the political propaganda effort of the Third Reich . It shows the German pavilion designed by Hitler ’ s architect Albert Speer for the world exposition in Paris in 1937 . This pavilion was to be located right across from the Soviet-Union ’ s pavilion , which led Speer to design a soaring building that would tower above all others . Demand realised the work in the year the Expo 2000 World Fair took place in Hanover : at a time when the construction of national pavilions was called into question in the public debate in Germany .
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