Issue 2 - The Art Newspaper

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THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Wednesday 10 October 2012
DIARY
A message to Putin
Last year, the top spot in Art Review
magazine’s “Power 100” was held by
Ai Weiwei, and, although this year’s
parade of art-world movers and shakers
will not be announced until 18
October, we can reveal that political
activism has yet again been recognised
with the inclusion of the Russian feminist
punk band Pussy Riot in the lineup.
According to the editor of Art
Review, Mark Rappolt, the anti-Putin
collective—three of whom were sentenced
to two years’ imprisonment in
August on charges of hooliganism and
religious hatred—are positioned
“somewhere in the middle” of the list.
“They have made a powerful contribution
to the issues of free speech and
art, and this persuaded the panel to
include them, even though they are
not strictly speaking artists,” he
reveals. Ai’s selection for the 2011 list
was greeted by a furious outburst
from the Chinese government, which
condemned the magazine’s “political
bias and perspective”. Let’s see if Pussy
Riot’s presence in the “Power” pantheon
provokes any comment from
President Putin, who has stated that
the imprisoned trio, who are appealing,
“got what they asked for”.
Artoon by Pablo Helguera
Memory Marathon
12, 13 , 14 October
‘ At culture’s bleeding
edge…non-stop marathon
of art, talks, music and
performance…’
The Guardian
Tickets
£25/£20 (two day), £15/£10 (one day)
Ticketweb 08444 711 000
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.serpentinegallery.org
Why the chef saw red
Calling all Titian-haired art titans:
there are still a few places left at the
26-strong Ginger Curators’ Dinner,
cooked and presided over by Margot
Henderson, the art world’s favourite
flame-haired chef, who is also doing
the catering for Frieze London’s VIP
room. The invitation is part of a foodthemed
Frieze Projects programme
called Colosseum of the Consumed, hosted
by Grizedale Arts/Yangjiang Group.
The dinner is open to “any ginger/redhaired
curators, assistant curators, editorial
assistants or general art types”,
and takes place at the groups’ stand
(FL, P5, Friday, 5pm-8pm). Scoring high
on the Ginge-o-meter is the Tate,
which has already bagged three places
with a red-headed triumvirate consisting
of Nick Cullinan from Tate
Modern, Martin Clark from Tate St
Ives and Tate Liverpool’s Gavin
Delahunty. Carrot soup, anyone?
It’s the way you tell it
Visitors to These associations, Tino
Sehgal’s commission for Tate
Modern’s Turbine Hall, may spot a
surprisingly familiar face this week
among the 50 volunteers who have
been choreographed by the artist to
engage members of the public in various
encounters. For among those
intermittently jogging, chanting and
regaling strangers with often highly
personal stories is the writer, curator
and design historian Emily King, who
also happens to be married to the codirector
of Frieze, Matthew Slotover.
Modern life is rubbish
Prolific punkish artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster are all over town this week.
Last night, they inaugurated Blain Southern’s new Caruso St John-designed
space in Hanover Square with a characteristically gritty series of trademark
works. The show features self-portraits, which obliquely chart the vicissitudes of
their relationship and are created by the shadows cast by artfully arranged piles
of rubbish. These include the teetering two-storey structure fashioned from
stacked debris entitled My Beautiful Mistake, 2012, of which the artists boast:
“We made it all ourselves and it cost nothing!” A few streets away, in All Visual
Arts’ hastily relocated “Metamorphosis” show (now in the crypt of 1 Marylebone
Road), their joint image emerges out of a macabre tangle of dead cats and birds,
while on Friday, they will perform their “Nihilistic Optimistic” album at the
Vinyl Factory in Chelsea against a backdrop of specially commissioned portraits
by Dennis Morris, the immortaliser of the likes of David Bowie, Bob Marley and
the Sex Pistols. Just say N[ihilistic]O[ptimistic]…
“I don’t mug people; I talk to those
who want to talk,” King says. “Most of
my life I have to initiate things, but
here, it’s like a job—you go in and
you do what you are told, but there’s
also room for skill, craft and the honing
of my storytelling. It’s got a lot in
common with being a corporate wife.”
To boldly go
A wilder and more hedonistic hinterland
was revisited by many artworld
players, including the
painter Peter Doig and the
film-maker John
Maybury, who reunited
for a show at the
Institute of
Contemporary Arts
devoted to the work of
Trojan, the artist,
designer and 1980s clubscene
icon who died of a
drug overdose in the late
1980s at the age of 21. Arranged
against a backdrop of the artist’s
friend Leigh Bowery’s “Star Trek”
wallpaper—found and reproduced by
Gregor Muir, the director of the ICA,
who also happens to be a fan of the
artist—Trojan’s many prescient
pieces, such as his pre-Sarah Lucas
fried-egg-and-underpants designs for
Friday 12 October
Tarek Atoui performs La Suite with Uriel Barthélémi,
John Butcher, Mira Calix, Susie Ibarra, Hassan Khan, KK Null
(Kazuyuki Kishino), Lukas Ligeti, Robert Lowe, Ikue Mori,
Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Ghassan Sahhab, Sam Shalabi
Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 October
Etel Adnan, Ida Applebroog, Siah Armajani, Ed Atkins, Tarek Atoui,
Lutz Bacher, John Berger, Dara Birnbaum, Tim Bliss, Geta Bratescu,
Gavin Bryars, Daniel Buren, Evan Calder Williams, Olivier Castel,
Mariana Castillo Deball, Ed Cooke, Dennis Cooper, Winnie Cott,
Douglas Coupland, Michael Craig-Martin, Alison Crawshaw, Adam
Curtis, Pierre de Meuron, Brian Dillon, Marcus du Sautoy, Brian Eno,
Joshua Foer, Alberto Garutti, Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, John
Giorno, Amos Gitai, David Goldblatt, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Douglas Gordon, Alice Herz-Sommer filmed by Ron Arad,
Jacques Herzog, Richard Hollis, John Hull, Ragnar Kjartansson,
Isabel Lewis, David Lynch, Fumihiko Maki, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger,
China Miéville, Jeremy Millar, Adrian Piper, Alice Rawsthorn,
James Richards, Israel Rosenfield, Jacques Roubaud, Dimitar
Sasselov, Donald Sassoon, Ella Shohat, Cally Spooner, Luc Steels,
Michael Stipe, Jan Szymczuk, Jean-Yves Tadié, Timothy Taylor,
Sissel Tolaas, Gisèle Vienne, Marina Warner, Ai Weiwei, Eyal
Weizman, Richard Wentworth, Jay Winter and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Michael Clark’s early dance pieces and
some prophetically Hirstean anatomical
collages, were a stark and sobering
reminder of what might have been…
A bit of a shower
An artist’s material needs can be taxing
for galleries, but Josh Kline takes
the cake. Oliver Newton, the coowner
of the New York gallery 47
Canal (FL, R6), spent yesterday morning
running to four different Boots
chemists to buy 40 bottles of
Lynx men’s shower gel.
Some of the gel is being
used to fill bottles in the
shape of Norman
Foster’s “gherkin” skyscraper
in London (for a
piece entitled Why go
into architecture when you
can become a derivatives
trader?), but others, displayed
on shelves, resembling
a wall in a Duane Reade pharmacy
in New York, are altered with special
labels. Kline’s imagined variety
“Aspiration” claims to contain euros
and the drug Adderall. “Trafficking”
and “Persian Petrol” are supposed to
contain Russian roubles and US dollars
respectively. Speed and money:
perfect for an art fair.
Memory Marathon supported by
The Annenberg Foundation
With the generous support of the
Memory Circle: Richard and Susan Hayden
With kind assistance from DLD and The Kensington Hotel
Funded by The Space
Media Partners: The Independent, AnOther
Tarek Atoui La Suite commissioned by
Sharjah Art Foundation
With the generous support of Badr Jafar
Also showing at the Serpentine Gallery
Thomas Schutte: Faces & Figures
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London W2 3XA
T +44 (0)20 7402 6075
information@serpentinegallery.org
www.serpentinegallery.org
"I haven’t seen this
many crucifixes since
Catholic grade school"
ADAM SHEFFER OF CHEIM & READ
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