Get Ready for the Art Winter:
Current Exhibitions
from the Deutsche Bank Collection
The
days are still too short, and the year has barely begun. But it’s worth
it, especially during the winter months, to take some time aside to look
at art. And there’s a number of current exhibitions to choose from showing
works from the Deutsche Bank
Collection or sponsored by Deutsche Bank: beginning on January 29, the
exhibition No Limits, Just Edges at the
Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is showing little-known aspects of the work
of the artist icon
Jackson Pollock with a selection of drawings and works on paper, while
John Baldessari can still be seen through January 16.
John Baldessari:
Tiger (Orange) and
Trainer: With Three Figures (Red, Yellow, Blue),
2004, ©John Baldessari
For some,
Baldessari is a typical representative of
Pop Art, while others consider the 73 year-old Californian to be a
conceptual artist. As is so often the case, the truth lies somewhere in
between. For the Deutsche Guggenheim, the pop conceptualist has created a
13-part commissioned piece titled Somewhere Between Almost Right and
Not Quite (With Orange) that pays tribute to a wide variety of
influences: the movies, pure color, perception, psychology, and chaos.
From Febuary 22 through March 27 the Baldessari exhibition will be shown
at Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen - this is the tenth co-production
between the Deutsche Bank Collection and the museum.
Exposition view: Aus Deutscher Sicht -
Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank
From Germany to Russia and back again: in January, Deutsche Bank is
present in Moscow with two exhibitions: Masterpieces from the Deutsche
Bank Collection can still be seen through January 16 at the
Pushkin Museum under the title
From a German Perspective and ranging from German Expressionists such
as
Emil Nolde and
Ludwig Kirchner to the Leipzig-based painting star
Neo Rauch. Fresh from the
Hermitage in St. Petersburg,
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition is coming to the
Moscow House of Photography on January 22: the unusual juxtaposition of
16th-century Mannerists
with the cool, erotic black and white photographs of the star of the New York
scene aroused controversy last year during the Deutsche Guggenheim show.
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Jan Hermensz. Muller nach Adriaen de
Vries: Apollo mit dem Bogen bewaffnet für den Kampf gegen die
Schlange, 16. Jahrhundert
©2004 State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, 1976
©Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
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On the other hand, at the
Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück,
New Empire is showing the work of a native Muscovite through February
20 with the support of the Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation.
Maxim Kantor is one of the most important artists in Russia, and his
expressive and passionate artistic excursions have also influenced the
Western art scene. His paintings and etchings testify to the artist’s
social responsibility; his investigations into totalitarian structures
proved irksome well before the onset of
Glasnost, when he took it upon himself to fight for human rights and to
side with the weak and oppressed.
Miwa Yanagi: Elevator Girl House 3F, 1998,
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, © Miwa Yanagi
The synthetic photographs of the young Japanese artist
Miwa Yanagi make young women grow old artificially; each lives out her
idea of the future in a bizarre mise en scène. And the fantasies are
numerous: holding on tight to a young man, Yuka races down the American
West Coast on a motorcycle; Regine and Yoko throw extravagant parties in
their home for their friends; Eriko, an aged model, ponders on her past
beauty atop a grave stylized as a catwalk. After meeting with enthusiastic
response among the public at last year’s Deutsche Guggenheim show in
Berlin, Yanagi’s surreal visions of consumerist and teenage culture can be
seen in the
Mannheimer Kunstverein starting January 24.
The exhibition
Robert Motherwell at the
Museum Morsbroich, also sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Cultural
Foundation, can be seen through January 20. Like Jackson Pollock,
Motherwell belonged to the famous "New York School" and counts among the
key figures of
Abstract Expressionism. Over 25 years since Motherwell was last seen in a
large German exhibition, the Museum Morsbroich is now showing a
comprehensive retrospective.
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