October 22 - December 10, 2004

Deutsche Bank and Wall Street Rising invite Mikhail Baryshnikov, Diane von Furstenberg, Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons, and Robert Wilson to be guest curators.

Deutsche Bank is pleased to be the lead sponsor of Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, a unique exhibition of contemporary art located in a magnificent landmark building at 48 Wall Street in NYC. The exhibition brings together an exciting and diverse group of artists in support of Wall Street Rising, a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing Lower Manhattan. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Diane von Furstenberg, Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons, and Robert Wilson, each distinguished artists in their own fields with personal relationships to New York City, have contributed their immense talents by serving as guest curators.

For Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, these outstanding leaders in the worlds of dance, fashion, music, art, and theater were asked to select art works that reflect their personal vision or life's work in some way. Each was asked to choose works by artists represented in their own collections and/or works by artists in the worldwide Deutsche Bank Art Collection.

The overarching themes in the curatorial choices predominantly locate around the human figure: in depictions historical or imagined, in the form of public art or private engagement, and in a variety of media. With figuration as a thread, Connecting Collections weaves together numerous images that reference portraiture, the body and its many guises. In broadest terms, the selected works suggests themes of personal and collective transformation.

Amidst a setting of grand Italian Renaissance style architecture with murals from 1929 depicting colonial and industrial America, the exhibition site itself poses a conceptual marvel of connecting historical epochs. Directly interacting with the architecture, Chris Doyle presents an exciting new site-specific installation that figuratively overwrites history with the multi-projection, We Will Again Be Optimists. A 10 x 32 foot narrative painting tracing graffitti history by acclaimed aerosol artist, MERES, will also be on view for the first time. Large scale photographs, textile and a video by Japanese artist, Miwa Yanagi create a link to fashion, fantasy and the surreal. Selected paintings, photographs and sculpture by over 25 artists including Derrick Adams, Stephan Balkenhol, Marcel Dzama, Gunther Forg, Futura 2000, Anders Knutsson, Simone Leigh, Katherina Mayer, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Mark Dean Veca, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing, Bernd Zimmer and others. Their juxtapositions highlight a range of contemporary attitudes towards individuality, glamour and the mythic.

On a separate floor, Robert Wilson creates nine tableaus using light, color, and everyday objects that suggest compelling narratives. Displayed with Wilson's signature brilliance, each presents a powerful gesture that evokes time, memory, and uncertain danger whereby human absence is felt as strongly as presence.

With the unique perspectives of these artistic visionaries, Art Downtown: Connecting Collections seeks to underscore the lively inter-relationships between dance, fashion, music, art, and theater while simultaneously emphasizing the connections between generations of visual artists. As sponsors of Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, Deutsche Bank supports the many efforts of Wall Street Rising to help redefine Lower Manhattan as an important arts and cultural destination for New York City and the world.

The exhibition will be on view at 48 Wall Street from October 22 to December 10, 2004. Hours are Tues - Fri from11am - 7 pm and 12 - 5 pm on weekends. Admission is free.

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Deutsche Bank has the largest corporate art collection in the world with over 50,000 pieces on display in branches worldwide. Support of the arts and the communities where the Bank does business is part of Deutsche Bank's long standing commitment to social responsibility and good corporate citizenship.

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Carl Skelton, 2004
October 4 - December 3, 2004

Passers-by as well as visitors and employees of Deutsche Bank may wonder about those three-word commands emanating from the storefront window of the 60 Wall Street Atrium:

Permit playful Changes?
Enhance distinct Centuries?

Gist is a new media artwork that consists of slowly changing commands generated at random by a computer program. The sentences are formed from the vocabulary of a national policy report intended to "motivate interest in the rich intersection of information technology and the arts." Skelton transforms the explanatory function of this report into an artwork, an action which both supports the goals of the study while gently poking fun at the endeavor.

The commands range from serious to playful, from strikingly relevant to oddly absurd. Yet, in their near infinite permutations, the sentences reveal a subtext that hints at America's persistent hope in the promise of technology. Here in Lower Manhattan, Gist resonates with the late '90s silicon alley optimism of the dot.com and new media industries. As the artist says, "the character of the sentences reveals aspects of the original text I had never expected."

Carl Skelton is a Canadian sculptor and digital media artist who has exhibited widely in Canada, Europe and the US. He is the founder and director of the Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY.

Gist: Next Generation Americana is produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of Downtown Digital Futures (www.lmcc.net/ddf), and made possible by Deutsche Bank.

February 20th to September 19th 2004

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin will present 200 masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York from February 20th to September 19th 2004. It will be the only European museum to feature these honored works and the first time that such a rich selection of works from the MoMA collection will be displayed outside the US. Among the works will be "The Dance" by Henry Matisse, "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh and Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl". "The MoMA in Berlin," offers a panorama that spans from renowned works of Classic Modernity to groundbreaking works of the American post-war era.

Within the framework of its cultural affairs, Deutsche Bank will be the exclusive sponsor for this event. Since 1997, the bank has substantiated the notion of transatlantic collaboration in the exhibition space of the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. During the show "The MoMA in Berlin" the exhibition "Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition" will be on display with works by the distinguished American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (see preview).

Employees of the bank and it's companies have free admission to the exhibition "The MoMA in Berlin." It is necessary to show your ID card and a print out of yourself from the Bank's group directory. Further information about the show and details on admission procedures can be found on the central news portals, on DB Art Intranet and in the bank's publications, which accompany the exhibition. You can also find extensive information on the project as well as service information for visitors at (http://www.das-moma-in-berlin.de).

Deutsche Bank will offer a guided tour through the exhibition on two Fridays: March 5 and May 21, each beginning at 7:00 pm. Employees who are interested should email: mailbox.kunst@db.com by Thursday, 26 February respectively 13 May. Please state if you will bring a guest. The number of participants is limited to 20 people.

Further information on the exhibition project and on complementary activities can be found on DB Art Intranet (http://art.intranet.db.com) or directly on the homepage of "The MoMA in Berlin" (http://www.das-moma-in-berlin.de).

For further enquiries contact
Corporate Cultural Affairs / Art
E-Mail: mailbox.kunst@db.com

June 11 - September 19, 2004

Deutsche Bank will sponsor an important exhibition of works at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by one of the founding figures of modern sculpture. Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern, London, Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things is a highly selective view of Brancusi's work, primarily emphasizing his carving and tendency toward abstraction. Bringing together more than thirty of Brancusi's rare sculptures, this exhibition will capture the essential character of his art through an examination of his themes, use of series, and choice of materials. In addition, the New York presentation, which follows its extremely successful run in London, will be the first public showing of a recently discovered, major Brancusi sculpture, Sleeping Muse.

Brancusi was born in Romania in 1876 and studied in Bucharest. In 1904 he moved to Paris, where he was to spend more than fifty years and where, from the mid-1920s, he established his studio. He was encouraged by Auguste Rodin, but quickly broke away from the sculptural tradition that the elder artist represented. Rather than create a clay model and send the work out to a craftsman to enlarge, Brancusi was the first modern sculptor to carve works himself and to engage directly with the final material. In this regard, he was inspired by the examples of "primitive" art, including that of Africa and of ancient Europe, especially the Cycladic Islands, and the experiments of Paul Gauguin. He began a process of simplifying his figures to the point of abstraction in 1907; forms of great purity and balance resulted from this refinement. Brancusi died in Paris in 1957.

Brancusi's serene, simplified sculptures are widely acknowledged as icons of Modernism. His choices of materials, including marble, limestone, bronze, and wood, and his individual expression through carving soon established him as a leading avant-garde artist. He was a close friend of both Amedeo Modigliani (on view at The Jewish Museum) and Marcel Duchamp, and his work has inspired sculptors from Barbara Hepworth to Carl Andre and Donald Judd.

Admission is free for employees and one guest with a valid Deutsche Bank ID card. For further information visit http://www.guggenheim.org

Exploring a Quarter-Century of American Design
June 19 - September 21, 2003

  
USDesign 1975-2000, a major exhibition offering a comprehensive analysis of American design during the last quarter of the 20th century, opens jointly on June 19th at Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery and the Museum of Arts & Design (formerly American Craft Museum). Featuring more than 250 designs and objects, the exhibition explores some of the most significant developments in the fields of graphic design, architecture and decorative and industrial design created in the United States during this time period.

USDesign 1975-2000 presents the work of three generations of internationally recognized and emerging designers whose style matured after 1975, including Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Maya Lin, Thom Mayne, Ross Menuez, Katherine McCoy, Karim Rashid, Deborah Sussman, and Robert Venturi. USDesign 1975-2000 also introduces important theoretical and cultural issues that have shaped the design arts in this quarter century and addresses the impact of the Information Age on American design.

"[T]his project…in no way pretends to be a survey of everything that has happened in American design since the 1970s," writes R. Craig Miller, Curator of Architecture, Design and Graphics at the Denver Art Museum and curator of the exhibition, in the accompanying catalogue. "We have tempted to characterize a number of the definitive ideas that have shaped this period, the major American designers of this epoch, and some of their most influential works. We have also attempted, where appropriate, to note how American design relates to international developments during this quarter century and, with the fresh perspective of a new century, how it relates to larger trends that have evolved through the entire twentieth century."

Miller brought together a team of leading design scholars and critics to research and organize the exhibition in their respective areas of expertise. They include David G. DeLong in architecture; Philip Meggs in graphics; and Miller himself, who oversaw decorative and industrial design.

At Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, developments in architecture and architectural theory will be explored through models of significant buildings created by noted architects such as Peter Eisenmann, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Bart Prince, James Wines, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Robert Venturi. The models will be supported by drawings and photographs. The work of R/Greenberg Associates illustrates how designers utilize technology as a medium. The firm created the title sequence to the movie Seven. Tibor Kalman and April Greiman are also featured artists who work in words and live action for motion graphics.

The Museum of Arts & Design will feature sections comprising graphic design and industrial and decorative design, including furniture, tableware, televisions, computers, lamps, textiles, vases and wetsuits, exemplifying the goal of the American designer to deliver a combination of beauty and practicality to consumers. Highlights include Frank Gehry's cardboard Bubbles Chaise Lounge (1979-82) and Fish Lamp (1984); Thom Mayne's Nee Side Chair (1988); Lyn Godley and Lloyd Schwan's Otto Cabinet (1990-91); Lisa Krohn's Twiggy Lamp (1993); Harry Allen's Stratta Bowls (1997); and Karim Rashid's glass, steel-chrome and neoprene Space Chaise and his glass and chrome-plated metal Soft Lighting (both 1999).

The exhibition was organized by the Denver Art Museum, where it premiered in early 2002. After its presentation at the Museum of Arts & Design and Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, the exhibition will travel to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN, and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.


In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum is planning a series of innovative public programming, including a three-part lecture series exploring museum architecture in New York City, additional lectures and panel discussions on topics in architecture and design, concerts, workshops, and a two-day design conference. For more information, please contact the Museum of Arts and Design: nyc.mad.museum or call 212.956.3535.

Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery is open daily from 9 am to 6 pm and is located at 31 West 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. USDesign 1975-2000 is accompanied by a catalogue of the same title published by Prestel in association with the Denver Art Museum. The 256 page-publication is available for sale at the Museum of Arts & Design, 24 West 52nd Street.

For more information, or to obtain exhibition-related electronic images or slides, please contact: Patrick Keeffe, Public Relations, Museum of Arts & Design, 212.956.3535, ext. 113 or Patrick.Keeffe@americancraftmuseum.org

Photographs by Christo and Jeanne Claude
Level A at 60 Wall Street



An exhibition of prints by husband and wife artists, Christo and Jeanne Claude, are currently on view outside the cafeteria on Level A at 60 Wall Street. "Forty Years of Public Art" presents both concept drawings and completed project photographs of eight art projects executed around the world by these two visionaries, including the notorious "Wrapped Reichstag," in Berlin (1992/1995), "Surrounded Islands," in Biscayne Bay, FL (1982/1983 ) and "Umbrellas Project" in Japan and CA (1989/1991). The exhibition at Deutsche Bank has been organized to create awareness of The Gates project, scheduled for two weeks in February of 2005, in NYC's own Central Park.

For the first time in their 40 years of creating public art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude are giving the exclusive rights to a non-profit organization, the Public Private Alliance, to license products commemorating The Gates.Deutsche Bank is the founding corporate partner of the Public Private Alliance for The Gates project. All net proceeds from the sale of these products will benefit the city's natural environment and the arts. As part of the Public Private Alliance, Deutsche Bank is working closely to maximize this unique gift to New York City.

Christo and Jeanne Claude take the idea of landscape painting to new levels of meaning through their unique interventions of form and color using scaled objects and/or fabrics. By literally altering the landscape, their work allows the viewer to see the same environment in a new way. The artists' signature wrapping of buildings, bridges, trees and objects creates new forms and contours while highlighting those that already exist. Equally dramatic is the unwrapping, where the viewer- as well as the building or object - has been temporarily transformed by the experience itself. Each project is a feat performed by a collective of people working together to create art on a scale that is monumental, yet ephemeral - because it exists only for a limited period in time.

The works on view are for sale. Please note that Christo and Jeanne Claude do not personally profit from the sale of these works. All proceeds are given to the Public Private Alliance. If you are interested in purchasing one of these prints, please visit: http://www.40yearsofpublicart.org.

Photographs by Stanley Greenberg
April 22 - June 15, 2003


The scale of New York's water system is staggering - it provides 1.3 billion gallons of water a day to over nine million people from two thousand square miles of watershed. Its aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks have been continually under construction since the 1830's, and its current - and largest - tunnel project will not be completed until 2020. Not only a technological miracle, New York's water system is also sublime - from its acres of bucolic land to its glimmering steel mechanizations. Waterworks captures in black and white the beauty and mystery of a system that is essential to so many.

Stanley Greenberg spent ten years photographing these spectacular sites and petitioning the authorities to gain access to them. He has traveled to places as varied as reservoirs in remote regions of upstate New York to tunnels eight hundred feet below the streets of the city. He completed the series in 2001, just before the events of September 11 closed most of these sites to all visitors. In the exhibition, Waterworks, Greenberg reveals this now hidden liquid city.

Stanley Greenberg is the 2002-2003 recipient of the 2002-2003 Architecture and Environmental Structures Fellowship, administered through the New York Foundation for the Arts and Deutsche Bank.

Selections from 12 Latin American artists
February 20 - April 20, 2003


Dreamspaces/Entresueños features painting, sculpture and drawing by twelve Latin American artists who create personal visions using various representations of space. Each artist uses relevant forms to conjure either real or imagined space, often mixing the metaphorical with actual structures. The exhibition includes more than twenty works by these contemporary artists who live and work in the United States in cities such as New York, Miami, and San Antonio, and around the world in Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela.

The works on view suggest several themes inspired by "dreaming," the states existing between fantasy and daydream. The surreal and the spiritual are evoked in the work of José Bedia, Janaina Tschape, and Franco Mondini-Ruiz whereby transformation is a key element. The dream-like associations of childhood and the seemingly familiar appear in Ernesto Pujol's paintings of meticulously placed shoes, and Javier Téllez's sculptural installation of ready-mades and toys. The works of Los Carpinteros, Carlos Garaicoa, María Elena González, Arturo Herrera, and Esterio Segura teeter between what is fictitious and what is real, conflating ideas about landscape, architecture, and the construction of utopian space.

Dreamspaces/Entresueños offers a range of visual experiences, where the whimsical frequently joins with the political, and where the perceptions of our inner and outer worlds often collide.

The guest curator of the exhibition is Holly Block, Executive Director of Art in General, a downtown arts nonprofit, and recent editor and author of ART CUBA The New Generation, a book on contemporary art from Cuba.

Selections from 10 photographers: Fleeting Moments
December 17, 2002 - February 16, 2003





Internationally renowned artists alongside younger, lesser-known ones collectively pose questions about meaning, perception, and orientation. Each photographer investigates the idea of landscape - its physical and psychic construction, both natural and man-made - and reveal how transitory moments suggest the sublime. Iska Jehl, Stephan Huber and Bernhard Martin playfully recreate personal landscapes using collage and digital alteration, while Thomas Struth, Frank Darius and Olafur Eliasson present unadulterated views of specific places. Christian Müller and Thomas Florsheutz examine close up the organic structures existing within nature, whereas Axel Hütte and Andreas Gursky present expansive views and infinite horizons in the tradition of Romantic landscape painting. The camera documents much more than what materializes before its lens - it divulges the photographer's individual perspective on the world. Each renders the moment as an ephemeral occurence from which to observe and interpret contemporary experience.

Momentaufnahme (Fleeting Moments) is also the theme of the 2003 Deutsche Bank calendar.

Selections from Lyonel Feininger:
Early Drawings and Prints 1906-1921
October 22 - December 12, 2002



An exhibition of the artist's early drawings and prints devoted to the human figure. Forty images executed in pencil, ink, watercolor and color crayon, as well as woodcut prints that reveal Feininger's astute visual perceptions of people in daily life. Works on view were selected from the archive of Achim Moeller, a well-known expert on Lyonel Feininger.

Feininger drew constantly throughout his life - observing how people walk on the street, sit in cafés, read quietly or interact with each other, calling the drawings his Naturnotizen (nature notes). The figures are often elongated or of an exaggerated size in proportion to their environments, and because they are rapidly sketched, evoke a sense of spontaneity and fleeting moments in time.

The figurative drawings delightfully invoke the spirit of Feininger's early training as a caricaturist, and show the great facility of his hand and eye working together in a distillation process. The early figure drawings ended up providing rich source material for later works and also served as a basis from which the artist developed his later style of abstraction.

Selections from the New York City Fire Museum
September 26 - October 11, 2002



In conjunction with the New York City Fire Museum, the exhibition presents an array of painted artifacts, hand-made models, early equipment and historical lore related to the early days of fire fighting.

Americus focuses on the volunteer and early days of the paid department. The exhibition organizes around the themes of water delivery, transportation, apparatus, and communication and how each developed more efficiently. The pride and pageantry of early fire fighting is seen in the great attention given to equipment decoration and aesthetic detail.

Featured are presentation shields, a muffin bell, speaking trumpets, a signal lantern, bottle extinguishers, cast iron fire truck toys, and a spectacularly detailed model of a horse-drawn Hayes aerial ladder truck with harness rigging for three horses. Rare photographs, prints, newspaper cartoons and other ephemera also accompany the exhibition.

The New York City Fire Museum has one of the finest collections of apparatus and fire-related folk art in the country. Deutsche Bank joins with the New York City Fire Museum to promote fire safety awareness through education, and to foster appreciation for the proud and colorful history of fire fighting in New York.

Words and Weaving in Contemporary Art
June 17 - August 22, 2002



A group exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography that examines the parallel inspirations of the written word and the use of woven materials in contemporary art. The 23 works on view, by 17 artists, incorporate language and/or textile motifs, and highlight the interplay between verbal and visual ideas. Using diverse forms of media, from painting to crocheted wool to cast resin, the artists in the exhibition display a process-oriented curiosity that questions visual expectation. They draw on poetry, pop culture and art history for inspiration.

Terry Allen, Xenobia Bailey, John Baldessari, Andrew Bush, Seong Chun, Leslie Dill, Lee Etheredge IV, Vernon Fisher, Bo Joseph, Gina Kleinhelter, Aric Obrosey, Rona Pondick, David Schorr, Devorah Sperber, May Stevens, Richard Thatcher and Dudley Zopp.

Organized by: Mario M. Muller.

Works on Paper
March 25 - May 17, 2002



Prints from the bank's "works on paper" collection by five German artists that use the serial image format, featuring works by Lothar Baumgarten, Imi Knoebel, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Dieter Roth.

The five artists deal with concepts of chance and control, order and process, and the creative possibilities of using the mechanically reproduced image. By means of sequential imagery, they explore the perceptual as well as the conceptual, using photography and printmaking as tools. Each deliberately pursued a diversity of mediums and styles throughout their careers.

Besides nationality and the fact that all but Dieter Roth studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, what unites the artists are the simultaneous influences of Minimalism and Pop Art ideas. In the context of two socially turbulent decades, the assembled works define ways in which each of these significant artists sought to combine self-imposed methodologies of working with a spirit of investigative spontaneity.

Works on Paper
February 4 - March 22, 2002
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http://www.creativetime.org



Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery is hosting an exhibition, Time to Consider: The Arts Respond to 9.11, part of a collaborative public art project between four NY arts organizations that offers reflections on September 11 by artists, poets, designers and architects.

Creative Time, Poets & Writers, Inc., the Van Alen Institute, and Worldstudio Foundation invited associates from the visual, literary, architectural, and graphic arts to submit responses in the form of poster designs. A representative poster from each creative discipline was then jury selected for printing and posting around the City. The four posters will appear on media walls and will also be offered free to the public at museums, libraries and community centers. Time to Consider is displaying the four posters, in addition to over 40 other submitted proposals.

From the Deutsche Bank Collection
July 11 - August 24, 2001



Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery presented an exhibition of works on paper from 1979 -1999 by the German artist, Günther Förg. Selected as Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year 1999," the show is part of a larger exhibition featured at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in May 2001. In NY from July 11 - August 24, the opportunity to see 20 years of prints, drawings, collages and photographs by this important artist is an exceptional one.

Günther Förg was born in 1952 in Füssen, Germany. After completing his art degree at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, he immersed himself in the lively Munich art gallery scene of the mid-1970s. There the young artist absorbed a range of influences that encouraged him in the direction of both abstract and conceptual art.

Förg has always employed an unusually wide variety of materials and techniques. Yet since the early 1970s, he has remained faithful to his leitmotif of transparency and the multi-layered nature of reality. His mastery of diverse mediums is demonstrated in both small-scale works on paper and in room-filling, mural-sized paintings.

From the Deutsche Bank Collection
February 9 - March 30, 2001



"10 of 100", is an exhibition of drawings, photographs and paintings selected from the Deutsche Bank collection. "10 of 100" presents the works of ten artists, one from each decade of the last century. Included in the exhibition are: Richard Artschwager, Andreas Feininger, Erich Heckel, Eva Hesse, Albert Hertel, Adolph Hölzel, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Markus Lüpertz, Bernard Schultze and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

January 15 - February 4, 2001



"Identity" is a group exhibition of multimedia works addressing the subject of identity and its changing profile in the process of global transformation. Art students from four major universities in Germany, Spain, Japan and the USA were invited to respond to the theme in their own choice of media, with an emphasis on new and innovative technologies..

September 12 - November 10, 2000



"NACH ALLES/AFTER ALL," is an exhibition of drawings by Lawrence Weiner from a recently commissioned installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. The drawings were made in conjunction with the project for the Berlin museum, which is a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. For the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin commission, the artist has created a bilingual installation in which the written word, directly painted on and traversing the gallery walls, articulates the space with associative phrases. The texts address the multiple realities of things and materials as they coexist and interact in the same space. The project is also manifest in the special book that Weiner designed on the occasion of the commission in which text and drawings intersect to offer a multilayered dialogue between the visual and the verbal.

May 8 - June 23, 2000



"Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema," is a group exhibition of black and white and color photographs of the American drive-in movie theater. First shown at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in the summer of 1998, Ms. Richardson reorganized the exhibition as guest curator for The Lobby Gallery during summer 2000. "Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema" includes the work of photographers Dick Arentz, Richard Barnes, Jeff Brouws, Robert Dawson, Jim Dow, James Fee, Steve Fitch, John Gutmann, Stuart Klipper, O. Winston Link, Alex MacLean, Richard Misrach, Lynn Saville, and Sandy Skoglund.

May 8 - June 23, 2000



"Cities of the Future", an exhibition produced by ArtsConnection and presented by The Lobby Gallery at Deutsche Bank. The Student Art Program is a series of exhibitions featuring the work of students in New York City public schools. In acknowledgement of their talents and to further their arts education, the Wasserstein Perella Foundation sponsors these exhibits and has awarded a scholarship to each student to attend a course at an accredited arts program.

Works on Paper 1961-1997
March 14 - May 5, 2000



George Baselitz: Works on Paper 1961-1997, is an exhibition from the Deutsche Bank collection. Spanning four decades of work, the selections from the Deutsche Bank collection include early etchings and drawings in various media, watercolors and woodcuts. Featured are many of Baselitz's recurring signature motifs: heads, still lifes, eagles, landscapes and human figures. The exhibition is part of a larger retrospective organized in 1997 by Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, and which later travelled to Moscow, Johannesburg, and Chemnitz, Germany, near where the artist grew up in the former GDR.

Portraits from the Deutsche Bank Collection
January 17 - March 11, 2000



Facing Forward, an exhibition of contemporary portraits from the Deutsche Bank New York Collection. Featuring photographs and works on paper by Nan Goldin, Friedemann Hahn, Helmut Middendorf, Irving Penn, Bernhard Prinz, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding and Andy Warhol. Facing Forward highlights contemporary approaches to portraiture by nine German and American artists who have contributed to the genre over the last 25 years. Their various works raise questions about the nature of representation, self, individuality, celebrity and notions of truth and beauty. The influence of the mass media and how we portray images of ourselves both publicly and privately are also explored.

Portraits from the Deutsche Bank Collection
November 16 - January 14, 2000



The Swimmer in the Economist, an exhibition of drawings and preparatory studies from from a 1998 installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin by American artist, James Rosenquist. Featuring collages and mixed media drawings that served as working studies for three monumental, site-commissioned paintings created especially for the Berlin gallery. Dynamic visual metaphors that reflect the changing times in which we live, The Swimmer in the Economist reflects both the uncertainty and the vitality of entering the new millennium on a global scale. Making references to Germany at this time in history, the subjects are industry and consumerism, and the turbulent nature of the economy. Besides his Pop art identification, Rosenquist is considered to be one of the most significant history painters of the second half of this century.

September 27 - November 12, 1999



Fifteen, an exhibition of recent works by 15 former NYFA fellowship recipients honoring the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Artists' Fellowship program. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, video and photography by: Judith Barry, Ellen Berkenblit, Jean Blackburn, Jeremy Blake, Heide Fasnacht, Rebecca Howland, Deborah Kass, Whitfield Lovell, Cara Perlman, Jim Raglione, Ruth Root, Michael Smith, John Torreano and Dan Witz.

June 21 - August 6, 1999



An exhibition of Black and White photographs by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher. The couple have worked as a team for more than 35 years documenting industrial architectural motifs discovered while investigating building sites in Europe, Great Britain and North America. Serializing functionally similar buildings, the Bechers create "typologies," visual variations of basic architectural forms which allude to cultural and social structures. Their work also reveals a fascinating history of industrial architecture.

Drawings and prints from the Guggenheim Museum
June 21 - August 6, 1999



Twelve outstanding works on paper by eight Modernists of the early twentieth century including Ernst Barlach, Rudolf Bauer, George Grosz, Hans Hartung, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wilhelm Lehmbruck,Otto Nebel, and Hans Richter. An exhibition showing how abstraction and figuration, developing in tandem, were primary genres of exploration. The breadth and diversity of German avant-garde practice from the early to the middle of the century is reflected in the work of these eight artists from the Guggenheim permanent collection.

Work by young people from New York City schools
May 3 - June 1, 1999



The Student Art Program is a series of exhibitions featuring the work of students in New York City public schools.  In acknowledgement of their talents and to futher their arts education, the Wasserstein Parella Foundation sponsors these exhibits in conjunction with the public arts organization, ArtsConnection, and awards an annual scholarship to each student to attend a course at an accredited arts program.

Deutsche Bank Collection
March 15 - May 1, 1999



An exhibition of works on paper and a large scale wooden sculpture of standing figures by this German artist.  Balkenhol exploits concepts of monumentality and subjectivity by skewing human scale relationships and avoiding expressionistic gestures.  Mask-like, sometimes portrayed as strange hybrids of man and animal, his anonymous beings calmly look out at the world like stoic, sentient giants.  Balkenhol invites identification with his generic, "Everyman" figures while at the same time resisting traditional narrative content and portraiture.

JAZZ
January 25 - March 12, 1999



Bill Gottlieb's remarkable ability to show the soul and energy of jazz goes back to his roots as a journalist for The Washington Post.  Covering the music beat in his weekly column, Gottlieb traveled with the Big Bands and frequented Harlem's legendary jazz clubs.  Passionate about the artists and their new forms, Bill made photographs that reveal America's musical giants from a uniquely intimate perspective.