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- More Diversity for Young Curators - Idris Khan Designs First Edition for Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship
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- 40 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection - Christo & Jeanne-Claude: “The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City)”, 2003
- 40 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection - Katharina Grosse: "Untitled", 1992
- 40 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection - Luigi Ghirri: "Porto Recanati", 1984
- The New York Art Fair Goes Online: Welcome to Frieze Viewing Room
- 40 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection - Bhupen Khakhar: "Woman and Boy", 1985
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- Silvia Lara wins the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award
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40 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection
Bhupen Khakhar: "Woman and Boy", 1985
Max
Bill’s twisted granite sculpture “Continuity,” Christo and
Jeanne-Claude’s installation "The Gates" in New York's Central Park,
Cao Fei’s vision of a virtual, futuristic setting in the middle of
nowhere: On a monthly basis, we show a work that represents a period of
contemporary history and reflects the Deutsche Bank Collection, which
is celebrating its 40th birthday this year.
Bhupen Khakhar
Woman and Boy, 1985
� Bhupen Khakhar
Bhupen Khakhar’s image Woman and Boy tells a story that is as casual as it is mysterious. A boy cloaked in colorful garments looks at his mother through a window. Surrounded by butterflies, he looks like an apparition from another world, and colorful light shines into the dark apartment. The watercolor was created in 1985, when LGBTQ themes were still completely taboo in India. “When I feel I’m telling the truth, then there is no restraint,” Khakhar once said. The artist, who died in 2003, created a fascinating autobiographical work that revolved around motifs that no painter in his home country had ever touched: the life of India’s lower middle class, as well as intimate scenes that circle around sexuality, illness, and death.
Woman and Boy, which deals with homosexuality in a poetic manner, was purchased in the 1990s to furnish the Deutsche Bank branch in Mumbai. It illustrates the early global orientation of the corporate collection. In 2016, the work by this important Indian painter was presented to a broad public in the West for the first time in a major retrospective shown at Tate Modern in London and the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin.