On March 24, 2006 (until May 21), the second venue of Deutsche Bank Art’s anniversary exhibition will open at the Hara Museum, the renowned Japanese gallery of contemporary art in Tokyo. The first venue was last year in Berlin, where the exhibition drew the highest number of visitors ever to the Deutsche Guggenheim. In light of the first exhibition’s success, this cross-section of the Deutsche Bank Collection was invited to Tokyo. Through the partnership with the Hara Museum, an exclusive exhibition has been created, opening new perspectives on the Deutsche Bank Collection.
Chris Ofili (*1968)
Untitled, 2001
Aquarell, Tusche und Bleistift auf Bütten
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Deutsche Bank Collection
The show is also enhanced by the world-famous architect Zaha Hadid, through her furioso design, especially conceived for the exhibition. Inspired by the “Hanami” events celebrated during this time of year, she has made flexible blossom sculptures of up to four meters in height for the museum’s park. Inside, Hadid’s “carpet of blossoms” leads through the exhibition and rises into a cherry blossom in the upper gallery. With a selection of more than 130 works of art from 38 artists, the exhibition reflects the international, contemporary art of the Deutsche Bank Collection with a fascinating Japanese perspective.
Peter Fischli & David Weiss (*1952/*1952)
Ohne Titel, 1991
Photographie, aus 12teiliger Arbeit
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Deutsche Bank Collection
Following the overwhelming success of the anniversary exhibition in the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, “Tokyo Blossoms” is both a review and a preview: Whereas a work of art by the Japanese artist Yutaka Sone showing a birthday picnic among friends gave the catalogue, posters and advertising for the exhibition in Europe a unique character, a new selection from the Deutsche Bank Collection will now be visiting Japan – at precisely the time when cherry blossoms are celebrated with picnics beneath trees in bloom with family, friends and colleagues.
Zaha Hadid, the stellar London based architect and first woman to win the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, found inspiration in this selection of art for the exhibition architecture she designed especially for this show in Japan: A series of flexible, over-sized blossoms is installed in the museum’s garden. Surrounded by the artistically arranged plants, they generate a fascinating interaction between the cool, modern architecture of the Bauhaus-style town villa, built in 1938, which now houses the museum.
Hadid’s white sculptures are recast within the building as contours. Shaded like a carpet of blossoms, one of Hadid’s lines leads the visitors into the building and submerges the entire exhibition space into a new light. The atmosphere connecting inside and outdoors finds its full expression in another architectural blossom in the upstairs gallery.
Karin Sander (*1957)
Hühnerei, 1994
Roh, poliert, Größe 0
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Deutsche Bank Collection
The context of the show in Tokyo is also unique. Whereas in Berlin 25 prominent people close to the Collection selected their favorite works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the curators of the Hara Museum have now modified the selection and are presenting a new perspective on the world's largest corporate collection of art.
Through this special kind of patronage, Toshio Hara and his team of curators, together with the art consultant Yoshiko Isshiki, have placed their focus on contemporary art, thereby offering a panorama of the international contemporary art scene: Although the Deutsche Bank Collection contains numerous pieces of Japanese art, the work of only four Japanese artists, Yutaka Sone, Miwa Yanagi, Emiko Kasahara and Atsuko Tanaka, will be included in the show. Instead, the exhibition’s hosts have requested works by Martin Kippenberger, Andreas Gursky, Andreas Slominski and Wolfgang Tillmans. A selection of Tobias Rehberger’s watercolors and drawings will be shown, along with works by William Kentridge, from South Africa, and Chris Ofili, winner of the British Turner Prize. The list of requests also contained Gerhard Richter’s oil painting “Kahnfahrt” (Punting Trip) and collages by the Belgian artist Francis Alys, now a resident of Mexico City.
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Tokyo /
25.03. - 21.05.06
www.haramuseum.or.jp
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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
4-7-25, Kitashinagawa
Shingawa-ku
Tokyo, 140-0001
Japan
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english catalogue |
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Curators
Dr. Ariane Grigoteit
Director Deutsche Bank Art
Toshio Hara,
Junko Watanbe,
Yoko Uchida
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Yoshiko Isshiki
Art Consultant
Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday until 8 p.m.
Press
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