![]() ![]() Nobody does everything alone,” Demand said as he put the finishing touches on the work this week. ![]() Meanwhile, the building back in Japan has been moved again. MOCA has worked with Demand on a show that spreads his work over all three floors of the gallery upstairs is a large-scale three-dimensional reproduction of the bar created from photographic panels, this time including its upper storeys. Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mailīlack Label (the name of both bar and art work) is a rebuild of Tiravanija’s build (which was also rebuilt for a show in Belgium) and represents at least the fifth-generation descendant, through photography and three-dimensional models, of the parking-lot structure – which was a replacement in the first place. The Berlin-based Demand, now showing recent work at MOCA under the title House of Card, is well known for his representations of built spaces and his fascination with paper models. What was it doing there? Who would go for a drink in such a place? It was a narrow three-storey building with white siding stuck in the middle of a parking lot near the train station. He first encountered what would become the karaoke bar in the Japanese steel town of Kitakyushu, where he was artist-in-residence at an art school. Twisting between the actual and the represented, he has photographed architects’ models, turning these miniature structures into grand abstractions, and recreated rooms or buildings with his own small models or large photographs. The Berlin-based artist, now showing recent work at MOCA under the title House of Card, is well known for his representations of built spaces and his fascination with paper models. The little structure is just the latest manifestation of a decade-long artistic project by the German artist Thomas Demand, a collaboration that features a series of repetitions and reproductions as expansive as a hall of mirrors or Russian doll. It’s a tiny venue – a pint-sized plywood cabin where perhaps three drinkers could squeeze in for a beer and a song – but its origin story is a long winding tale. They have opened a new karaoke bar in the lobby at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. ![]()
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