Art works Involvement in contemporary art since 1979

Damien Hirst Born 1965, Bristol

Biotin-Maleimide 1995, Household paint on canvas

Tony Cragg Born 1949, Liverpool

Secretions 1998, Thermo plastic and fibreglass

Anish Kapoor Born 1954, Mumbai

Turning the World Upside Down III 1996, Stainless steel

Anish Kapoor’s art encourages questions about the origins of the world. His recurrent theme of the void has made this clear. Turning the World Upside Down III, 1996 is like a great beached scientific model of the void and the world.

The curved steel in the void of the sculpture reflects back on itself, doubling the image and turning everything upside down. It almost stands as a warning of the fragility of ideas.

“ Art doesn’t purport to have all the answers; the drug companies do. Hence the title of the series, The Pharmaceutical Paintings and the individual titles of the paintings themselves,” says Hirst as an explanation of his spot paintings, of which Biotin-Maleimide, 1995, is one.

Pills and spots have been a recurring theme. He used to tease curators that he wished to do a museum show of just spot paintings. The grid-like structure created by the spots is part of a system and in each painting no two colours are the same.

“ They’re about the urge, or the need to be a painter, above and beyond the object of a painting… I’ve often said that they are like sculptures of paintings.”

Tony Cragg, the son of an electrical designer for aircraft, was the accepted leader of a group of artists who emerged at the very beginning of the eighties, called the New British Sculptors.

He came to art through the unusual route of scientific training. Secretions is made of dice, but its subject explores the structure of the universe rather than the expected, gambling. The title refers to the act of transformation: old forms secreting to make the new order.

“ It will become necessary to find a language to describe the invisible, the inaudible, the unsmellable or the untouchable.”

Art builds.Art questions.Art transcends borders.Art works.

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Art questions. It generates new ideas and helps shape our future. It inspires people, opens up new perspectives and thus enables them to embrace unusual and innovative solutions. Promoting art has been a focus of Deutsche Bank’s activities for more than 30 years.

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Keith Tyson’s twelve-part painting, 12 Harmonics, overflows with ideas, theories and other ways to explore the world. The Harmonics Theory formula is chalked out on the blackboard in panel nine, but that is only one among many keys to this polyptych. The artist does not believe in the exalted altarpiece positioning of art. Art is part of everyday reality. One learns from this picture as one learns from life.

The artist gives us the chance to experience our environment afresh, almost as if we were children again, seeing the world for the first time. 12 Harmonics was made specifically with the reception of Winchester House in mind. His all-embracing vision gives everyone a chance to engage with the painting, and for those who busily march by opportunities to accumulate many glimpses over the days and months.

The twelve paintings can be split in as many ways as you can find, but here are some basic leads. The paintings are arranged numerically, one to twelve. Sometimes it is not completely obvious, but the artist claims that every panel has ‘numerical essence’. Each panel also represents an element. Each picture has its own sign of the Zodiac.

The first and the last picture depict the sun and the moon. They have equal sway over their subjects: there are six day and six night panels. There are three states of matter, so four panels devoted to each. The four seasons have three panels. There are six ages of man with panels apiece.

Each painting fits in with all these and many more structures. Panel six includes hexagons in the beehive, the cell like structure related to carbon. The bull is Taurus. It is a summer day. It is yellow. The artist borrows Caravaggio’s wicked version of childhood innocence. This can lead one off into a host of other references; the point is, that without your mind or your curiosity, the picture is dead.

“ If one looks at 12 Harmonics and begins to form associations between the various panels, it will not be long before one recognises that there are other things that have also affected the form. As we see the impact of meteors hitting the moon, or the legacy of decisions made by newspaper editors, the frames fall away and the work merges with the world”.

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