Art Market talks in the VIP Lounge
Deutsche Bank
supports the ART COLOGNE 2006
This
year, Deutsche Bank is once again sponsoring the ART
COLOGNE art fair in Cologne, Germany. From November 1 – 5, 2006, Deutsche
Bank Art and Deutsche Bank Private
Wealth Management will be present at Germany’s most important art fair
with a wide array of activities, including its VIP Lounge designed by Karim
Rashid, discussion forums on the art market, and a presentation of a
selection of works from the Deutsche
Bank Collection.
Draft
by Karim Rashid for Deutsche Bank's VIP-Lounge
at
Art Cologne 2006
©Karim Rashid
In
the anniversary year of the fair – which is taking place for the 40th time
this year – the bank is presenting itself with an exclusive VIP Lounge in
the Rheinhallen (Hall 5, Booth J 40). Transparent floors, organically
flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments envelope the visitor
in an abundance of visual impressions. In Cologne, the 46-year-old New
York-based designer Karim Rashid combines bright colors and lounge comfort
to create a futurist ambience that offers unusual perspectives and point
of view. The installation reflects Deutsche Bank’s commitment towards
facilitating access to contemporary ideas.
Draft
by Karim Rashid for Deutsche Bank's VIP-Lounge
at
Art Cologne 2006
©Karim Rashid
It’s
become one of the bank’s traditions to present pioneering design in the
lounge at ART COLOGNE. Last year, in cooperation with Deutsche Bank Art,
the renowned AD
Magazine presented an extraordinary environment at the Cologne
fair under the motto Living with Art. The living environment,
designed especially by AD, created an unusual site of
experimentation combining a show of international contemporary art from
the Deutsche Bank Collection with examples of exclusive living culture.
While last year works by Richard
Prince, Rosemarie
Trockel, and Richard
Artschwager were juxtaposed with select pieces by various designers,
this time the lounge will be transformed into a vision of Rashid’s.
Draft
by Karim Rashid for Deutsche Bank's VIP-Lounge
at
Art Cologne 2006
©Karim Rashid
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The Cairo-born designer had his international breakthrough
with a waste bin, of all things – a round trash can with an erect handle
that he designed in plastic for the Canadian firm Umbra.
He personalized it with the name Garbo
and wound up with a huge hit. Since 1995, almost 10 million copies of the
colorful bin have been sold at $12 each. That made Umbra an
internationally known brand, and Rashid a star and prophet for a new
design philosophy called Blobism: the design of round and organic forms in
brash pop colors. Since that time, he has been designing everything from
bags, mousepads, credit cards, ballpoint pens, and fabrics to
"cyber-clothes" – indeed, everything to entire seating landscapes. For Alessi,
he developed the watch Kaj; for Miyake
the flask for Eau d’Issey; for Toshiba
he designed a stereo system. Firms like Coca
Cola, Estée Lauder
, and Sony count among his clients. And
now, for Deutsche Bank, he has created a futurist room ensemble at the ART
COLOGNE.
Marc
Quinn, from the series Winter Garden, 2004,
Deutsche
Bank Collection
His
fluorescent-colored lounge serves as a communication forum for the bank’s
many client and discussion events. Thus, with its debate series "Art
Market Talks," Private Wealth Management seeks to create a bridge between
art as regarded from an artistic as opposed to a material view. Private
Wealth Management is the bank’s team for advising wealthy clients on
art-related matters. The team assists clients, for instance when they wish
to transfer large fortunes including art or to form foundations with
cultural backgrounds – all the way to founding a new museum.
Marc
Quinn, from the series Winter Garden, 2004,
Deutsche
Bank Collection
In harmony with
Rashid’s lounge concept in Cologne, Deutsche Bank is presenting the series
of Wintergarden prints by Marc
Quinn. The English artist’s deliberately artificial-seeming
photographs of plants form a visual counterpart to the futurist interior
design. Nature’s perfection is one of Quinn’s key themes, as his latest
works show, for instance the Flower sculptures cast in silicon.
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