22 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Wednesday 10 October 2012 DIARY A message to Putin Last year, the top spot in <strong>Art</strong> 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 <strong>Art</strong> 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. “<strong>The</strong>y 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”. <strong>Art</strong>oon by Pablo Helguera Memory Marathon 12, 13 , 14 October ‘ At culture’s bleeding edge…non-stop marathon of art, talks, music and performance…’ <strong>The</strong> 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. <strong>The</strong> invitation is part of a foodthemed Frieze Projects programme called Colosseum of the Consumed, hosted by Grizedale <strong>Art</strong>s/Yangjiang Group. <strong>The</strong> 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 <strong>The</strong>se 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. <strong>The</strong> 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. <strong>The</strong>se 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 <strong>Art</strong>s’ 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 <strong>Art</strong>s 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 <strong>The</strong> Annenberg Foundation With the generous support of the Memory Circle: Richard and Susan Hayden With kind assistance from DLD and <strong>The</strong> Kensington Hotel Funded by <strong>The</strong> Space Media Partners: <strong>The</strong> Independent, AnOther Tarek Atoui La Suite commissioned by Sharjah <strong>Art</strong> 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 (C9) AT FRIEZE MASTERS FRIEZE ART FAIR DAILY EDITION EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION (FAIR PAPERS): Editor: Jane Morris Deputy editor: Javier Pes Production editor: Ria Hopkinson Copy editors: James Hobbs, Iain Millar, Emily Sharpe Redesign art director: Vici MacDonald Designer: Emma Goodman Editorial researcher/picture editor: Ermanno Rivetti Picture research: Katherine Hardy Contributors: Georgina Adam, Louisa Buck, Charlotte Burns, Sarah Douglas, Melanie Gerlis, Gareth Harris, Ria Hopkinson, Ben Luke, Julia Michalska, Javier Pes, Charmaine Picard, Riah Pryor, Ermanno Rivetti, Cristina Ruiz, Christian Viveros-Fauné Photographer: David Owens Additional editorial research: Belinda Seppings DIRECTORS AND PUBLISHING Chief executive: Anna Somers Cocks Managing director: James Knox Associate publisher: Ben Tomlinson Finance director: Alessandro Iobbi Finance assistant: Melissa Wood Business development: Stephanie Ollivier Office administrator: Belinda Seppings Head of sales (UK): Louise Hamlin Commercial director (US): Caitlin Miller Advertising sales (UK): Kath Boon, Elsa Ravazzolo Advertising sales (US): Adriana Boccard Ad production: Daniela Hathaway PUBLISHED BY UMBERTO ALLEMANDI & CO. 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