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Where Do Ideas Come From? Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 1 Where do ideas come from? At Deutsche Bank we surround ourselves with art. International contemporary art plays its part in helping us to navigate a changing world. As a global bank we want to understand, and engage with, different regions and cultures, which is why the Deutsche Bank Collection features contemporary artists from all over the globe. These artists connect us to their worlds. Art is displayed throughout our offices globally, challenging us to think differently, inviting us to look at the world through new eyes. Artists are innovators and they encourage us to innovate. Deutsche Bank has been involved in contemporary art since 1979 and the ‘ArtWorks’ concept is an integral part of our Corporate Citizenship programme. We offer employees, clients and the general public access to the collection and partner with museums, art fairs and other institutions to encourage emerging talent. Where do ideas come from? 2 Deutsche Bank reception area with artworks by Tony Cragg and Keith Tyson Art in London The art in our London offices reflects both our local and global presence. Art enriches and opens up new perspectives for people, helping to break down boundaries. The work of artists such as Cao Fei from China, Gabriel Orozco from Mexico, Wangechi Mutu from Kenya, Miwa Yanagi from Japan and Imran Qureshi from Pakistan, can be found alongside artists from the UK such as Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Keith Tyson. We have named conference rooms and floors after these artists and many others. 2 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 3 Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu mines material The Bride who Married a Camel’s Head for her collages from ethnographic documentary photos as well as National 2009 Geographic, fashion, motorcycle and Mixed media on mylar pornographic magazines. In her images women, predatory animals, industrial products and machines, all melt together to become creatures that question our perceptions of beauty, our image of the other, of the alien. Mutu, from Kenya but who now lives in New York, was named Deutsche Bank ‘Artist of the Year’ in 2010 for her work exploring black female identity caught between Western consumer culture, the African Diaspora and post-colonial history. 4 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 5 Marcel Dzama We do not categorise our collection by a floor in our Frankfurt headquarters. Untitled regions around the world, as part of its He has a strong individual, almost intention is to break down boundaries quirky voice of the loner, yet his work 2006 and borders. Though he is Canadian often involves many people. Most of his Ink and watercolour on paper and lives in New York, Dzama has a drawings refer to dance performances, room named after him in London and which he choreographs and films. Marcel Dzama Such a Strange Rebellion I Remember how you Made me Feel They Grin like a Dog, in the Streets 2012 Ink, gouache and pencil on paper 6 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 7 Gerard Byrne With the intention of replicating the Elizabeth Magill “I’m not so much painting what is there Yet there is more threat in Magill’s A Country Road, a Tree, Evening: Glencullen, setting of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Bonn 2 but what I imagine might be there” work, which seems to dig deep into between Boranaraltry Bridge and Johnnie Fox’s Godot, Gerard Byrne travelled around says Magill, whose subject-matter, the well of psychological dislocation. 2003 North Wicklow near the writer’s family landscape, the luminosity of her paint “These works are not landscapes 2006 Oil on canvas home. Byrne has transformed these and her Canadian connection have led as such, but more like suggested C-print on paper ‘likely’ Irish spots so that they are to comparisons to one of the most backdrops to how I feel, think and ready for the arrival of Godot. Byrne famous living painters, Peter Doig. interpret the world.” represented Ireland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. 8 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 9 Bridget Riley Red, Blue and Green Dominance 1996 Screenprint on paper Riley is the most ordered of artists, experimenting with a scientific precision in the way of seeing. Her early work came out of an understanding of Seurat and ‘Pointillism’ but in the sixties she soon developed her own style, indeed her own label, ‘Op Art,’ in contrast to the Pop Art prevalent at the time. Images, though stationary on the canvas, visually move within the eye’s retina. Famous for vertical stripes, Riley has developed diagonals and curves; she is very much still experimenting. 10 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 11 Lucian Freud Woman with Arm Tattoo 1996 Etching on paper In July 2011 with Freud’s death, London lost its leading painter. Grandson of Sigmund, he was a great observer of life in his own right: the power of his personality was so strong and conflicting that he managed to maintain his aura of being an outsider, while being the ultimate insider. “I paint people”, he said, “not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be”. 12 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 13 Gabriel Orozco “I like circles and boomerangs, that’s indicates the advantage of many centres. Elad Lassry “A nervous picture is one that makes in my work; for instance in the black Quiote Leaf the way I work. It is always very “The beginning is the centre,” he says. Two Trees your faculties fail, when your comfort and white photographs that I frame cyclical,” says Gabriel Orozco, one “When we think of a beginning we often about having visual information, or in walnut, when the photograph’s 2010 2010 of the most influential artists in the think of a straight line – you start from a about knowing the world, is somehow singularity almost takes over, when C-print on paper C-print on paper, framed world. His work not only questions point and you go somewhere. But if you shaken. It’s the moment when an you think: ‘Oh, this is – this should the way the art world has been over- think of a centre it can go and grow in image tells you: ‘I’m also just a file,’ or, be – considered as a photograph.’” centralised but the profusion of circles multiple directions.” ‘I’m just pixels’. There are moments 14 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 15 Where do ideas come from? 100 artists from our collection and their birthplaces Roger Andersson Gerard Byrne Armen Eloyan Richard Hamilton Andrzej Jackowski Adam Magyar Sigmar Polke Raqib Shaw Sweden Ireland Armenia England Wales Hungary Germany India Mamma Andersson Cao Fei Tracey Emin Tom Hammick Anish Kapoor Henry Moore Gonzalo Puch George Shaw Sweden China England England India England Spain England Artists Anonymous Patrick Caulfield Mark Francis Siobhán Hapaska William Kentridge Wangechi Mutu Jorma Puranen Annelies Štrba Undisclosed England Ireland Northern Ireland South Africa Kenya Finland Switzerland Frank Auerbach Jake & Dinos Chapman Lucian Freud Mona Hatoum Idris Khan Caro Niederer Marc Quinn Sun Xun Germany England Germany Lebanon England Switzerland England China Charles Avery Maurice Cockrill Terry Frost Patrick Heron Ken Kiff Hughie O’Donoghue Imran Qureshi Tabaimo Scotland England England England England England Pakistan Japan Gillian Ayres Hannah Collins Adam Fuss Roger Hilton RB Kitaj Julian Opie Paula Rego Wang Taocheng England England England England USA England Portugal China Francis Bacon Tony Cragg Anya Gallaccio Damien Hirst Leon Kossoff Gabriel Orozco Gerhard Richter Gavin Turk Ireland England Scotland England England Mexico Germany England Sarnath Banerjee Adriana Czernin Ori Gersht David Hockney Cary Kwok Ana Maria Pacheco Bridget Riley Luc Tuymans India Bulgaria Israel England Hong Kong Brazil England Belgium Georg Baselitz Alan Davie Gilbert & George Howard Hodgkin Elad Lassry Eduardo Paolozzi MP & MP Rosado Keith Tyson Germany Scotland Italy / England England Israel Scotland Spain England John Bellany Matthew Darbyshire Zheng Guogu John Houston Christopher Le Brun Cornelia Parker Mathilde Rosier Iris van Dongen Scotland England China Scotland England England France Netherlands Elizabeth Blackadder Susan Derges Ion Grigorescu Des Hughes Cristina Lucas Victor Pasmore Samuel Fosso Stephen Walter Scotland England Romania England Spain England Nigeria England Peter Blake Marcel Dzama Federico Guzmán Jörg Immendorff Markus Lüpertz Simon Patterson Sean Scully Hugo Wilson England Canada Italy Germany Germany England Ireland England Elizabeth Magill Ralf Peters Colin Self Miwa Yanagi Canada Germany England Japan 16 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 17 Tabaimo Tabaimo represented Japan at the 2011 pieces exploring the mutability of the Hugo Wilson Hugo Wilson has made a tornado in This drawing, depicting a cross Skinspots 02 (Detail) Venice Biennale. She is one of the few body and its skin. The artist has suffered Beefalo a vitrine. Like many artists he works in between a buffalo and a cow, greets artists to use video in a radical new way. from eczema and at times she treats many mediums, including making life- visitors on the seventh floor of our 2009 2010 These drawings are linked to video skin as if it were a cinematic canvas. size drawings of large hybrid animals London headquarters as a rude Mixed media on paper Charcoal on paper including the Beefalo. Beefalos unlike reminder that none of us are the some hybrids are fertile. finished article. 18 Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? 19 Raqib Shaw “I have always been obsessed with my work I want people to believe in Ralf Peters Peters’ favourite motifs are gas stations, Untitled the idea of making industrial paints the possibility of transcendence, that From the series Indoors landscapes, and airports.
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