The Circle Walked Casually, Installation view, Deutsche Bank Collection. © Deutsche Bank KunstHalle. Photo: Mathias Schormann.
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Louise Bourgeois, from “10 am is when you come to me”, 2006. Deutsche Bank Collection. Louise Bourgeois Trust/© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Louise Bourgeois, from “10 am is when you come to me”, 2006. Deutsche Bank Collection. Louise Bourgeois Trust/© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Left: Gianni Colombo, Spazio Elastico, 1967. Right: Gregorio Vardanega, Rythme Joyeux, 1969. Courtesy von Bartha.
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Richard Prince, Masquerade nurse, 2004. Courtesy Gana Art.
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Hans Hartung, T 1949 – 10, 1949. Courtesy Applicat-Prazan.
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Selection of objects by Fabergé, 1880 – 1911. Courtesy A La Vieille Russie, Inc.
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The Master of the Legend of St Catherine, The Virgin and Child enthroned, circa 1490 – 1495. Courtesy Sam Fogg.
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Yuina Wada, BK-AH-BK, 2013. Courtesy Gallery Delaive.
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High-caliber
art and antiques over 300,000 square feet—with more than 70,000
visitors, including important collectors, museum people, journalists,
and numerous art fans that didn’t want to miss this “fair of the
superlative.” These are the stats of last year’s TEFAF—the art and antiquities fair that transforms the Exhibition & Congress Center in Maastricht into a temporary museum each year. Deutsche Bank
has long been partner to the TEFAF, where leading international
galleries present pieces both rare and exquisite, ranging from antique
sculptures to paintings by “modern classics” like Andy Warhol and Anselm Kiefer. Also on view are young artists such as the 1989-born Japanese artist Yuina Wada,
whose garishly colored paintings are clearly inspired by Manga culture.
Over the past several years, a trend has emerged at the TEFAF: more and
more collectors are ignoring the once so rigid separations between the
old masters, applied arts, and contemporary works, and increasingly,
the fair has been opening itself up to contemporary positions and
vintage design.
This year, the Deutsche Bank Lounge is dedicated to an exceptional American artist—Louise Bourgeois. On view is one of the most impressive late paper works by the sculptress, who died in 2010. 10 A.M. IS WHEN YOU COME TO ME
is the title she gave to this 20-part portfolio. The work portrays
hands that touch each other and let go again, only to come back
together. They move in bright red over a background of notepaper in a
kind of ballet danced to a soundless music. These are the hands of
Louise Bourgeois and Jerry Gorovoy,
her assistant of 30 years. He was her close friend, her mouthpiece, and
her connection to the world after the aged artist was no longer able to
leave her home. The work’s title refers to the hour each morning at
which Gorovoy came to Bourgeois’s studio. Currently, this document of a
close friendship can still be seen in the exhibition The Circle Walked Casually with international drawing from the Deutsche Bank Collection, which the Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn conceived for the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle.
Following the end of the exhibition, the series will be shown at the
TEFAF before returning to its home location, the Deutsche Bank Towers
in Frankfurt.
TEFAF
Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Center
3/14 – 3/23/2014
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