Last weekend I was in Berlin National Gallery with Judita and Viktoras to check out what’s happening there. And we found the photography exhibition of Thomas Demand there.
After waiting in the row, we got the tickets, got in, and started exploring. There were mostly daily-life scenes without people, so to say, still life. That seemed to be nothing special. Sometimes I didn’t even like the composition. But there was something what didn’t look natural. The photos looked cleaned very much without any noise. The contrasts were large. Probably he did all that cleanness with a lot of photoshopping. Some photos even looked like modeled 3D views. This is how we watched half of the exposition.
Then we read the description of the exhibition at the flyer that we had received with the tickets. It said that all those compositions were made out of paper. No! That can’t be! The cloakroom of a sports hall, a corner in an Asian restaurant, windows with convolvulus all around supposed to be made out of paper.. But when you look closer you really notice that. This glass was made out of plastic, that broom was made out of cardboard, and so on.. Cool! We started watching the exposition from the beginning again.
Probably many students were involved in making those models. Or, as Milda says, it was all made by the hands of little children 
This is how contemporary art can surprise you. It’s just important to get to know the conception.
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