Yan Pei Ming, Gardien, 2002, © VG
Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2006
Deutsche
Bank Collection
South American artist Dr.
Lakra tattoos posters of Mexican beauties from the thirties as though
on skin, while the South African artist Marlene
Dumas commits a girl’s portrait by Vermeer
to paper in delicate ink tones. Along with works by Francis
Alys and Laura
Owens, paper works by Richard
Artschwager, William
Kentridge, and the Chinese art star Yan
Pei Ming can be seen that have never before been shown. Visitors can
experience divergent currents in international photography in the staged
works of Sharon
Lockhart or Miwa
Yanagi, in Boris
Mikhailov’s unembellished snapshots of a new Russia, or in Beat
Streuli’s C-Prints, which depict passers-by in the streets of
New York like anonymous stars.
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Exhibition design for "All the Best"
by
Zaha Hadid, Courtesy
Zaha Hadid Architects, London
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In order to help visitors follow the discourse articulated
by the works presented here, Zaha
Hadid has once more designed a revolutionary exhibition setting.
Continually redefining the limits of architecture and urban design, Hadid
has created an architectural setting for the Singapore exhibition that not
only provides a conceptual framework for understanding the works but also
allows visitors to discover the bank‘s collection for themselves. Her
architectural interventions, that appear to dissolve spatial and temporal
boundaries with almost effortless ease, have set new standards in the
world of architecture. It would scarcely have been possible to design a
setting that better reflects, in such a radical manner, the dimensions and
special “workplace” qualities of the collection. Hadid‘s visionary
exhibition circuit, which both challenges and protects the works displayed
here, thus not only brings out the pioneering concept behind the
collection but also draws attention to its history and unique artistic
per-spectives.
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Yehudit Sasportas, Image no. 3 ,
2006,
Deutsche Bank
Collection, © Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
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The opening of All the Best coincides with that of
the first Singapore Biennale
. This ambitious platform for a dialogue between international
contemporary art and current art trends in Southeast Asia is the cultural
climax of the Singapore 2006
event series that accompanies this year’s meeting of the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank
Group. The meetings motto, Global City—World of Opportunities,
in many ways harmonizes with the title of our exhibition.
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Nic Hess, Ohr, 1998,
Deutsche
Bank Collection, Nic Hess, Ohr, 1998, Sammlung Deutsche Bank ©
Galerie Michael Neff © Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin
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For not only does All the Best refer to the best
works in the Deutsche Bank Collection being shown here; it also alludes to
individual yearnings, social alternatives, and global perspectives. In its
synthesis of revolutionary architecture and works by young, controversial
artists, the collection‘s third anniversary exhibition furthermore
reflects the fears and hopes of a world embarking on the 21st century.
Perhaps
this exhibition will succeed in bringing together a number of "happy
couples" in a (in the positive sense of the term) "mass wedding" — a
dynamic interplay of dialogues that embraces not only the works of art
themselves but also the visitors to the exhibition, the exhibition
architecture, the school and the museum—not to mention a whole range of
cultures and religions. As in all relationships, so in art one must reckon
with surprises — if all goes well, with the kind of happy ending that all
so ardently desire — even though the happiness may turn out to be only
provisional.
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Karen Kilimnik, Patti Boyd, 2000,
Deutsche
Bank Collection, ©The Artist
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The title motif of our catalogue — Karen
Kilimnik’s drawing Patti Boyd (soon to be Mrs. George
Harrison) — captures such a moment that crystallizes all these
expectations. The car draws up, and the bride-to-be gazes out into a
barrage of flashbulbs. Despite knowing today that Mrs. Harrison would also
one day become Mrs. Clapton, we still cannot resist wishing—as we do the
young couple standing in the courtyard of the Singapore Art Museum and
looking optimistically into the future — All the best!
All
the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid
01.09. -
20.11.2006
Singapore Art Museum (SAM)
71 Bras Basah Road
Singapore
189555
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