October 2011 Diary

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Diary editor: Riya Patel \| riya@icon-magazine.co.uk


Frieze Art Fair	Architecture of Fear	Michael Wallraff: Looking Up. Vertical Public Space
Regent’s Park, London	z33, Hasselt	MAK Gallery, Vienna
13 – 16 October 2011	2 October 2011 – 31 December 2011	5 October 2011 – 4 March 2012
This year’s Frieze Art Fair will be accompanied by film screenings, music, talks and eight site-specific projects, which will transform London’s Regent’s Park into a hub of artistic activity for three days. Dutch duo Bik Van der Pol (who last year filled a replica of the Farnsworth House in Illinois with live butterflies for the MACRO museum in Rome) will be creating a “live scoreboard” inspired by the architecture of Cedric Price. www.friezeartfair.com	Belgium’s z33 brings us the Architecture of Fear this month. The art and design exhibition takes the stance that fear has become a constant feeling that pervades our daily lives, rather than an immediate emotional response to threats such as terrorism or financial crisis. Using works that explore the “emotional, social and spatial mechanisms” of fear in society, the exhibition comments on how the design of global infrastructure is becoming increasingly shaped by factors of security and risk management. www.z33.be	Austrian-born architect Michael Wallraff has created an extensive installation that examines public space in the vertical dimension, as a special commission by the MAK Gallery. Wallraff’s previous research project, VertiCity, imagined a “spongy porous tower structure” that knits together the apartment towers of Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive. The sponge’s holes provide much-needed places for public interaction in a densely populated city centre. www.mak.at



Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935	Pipilotti Rist	California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Royal Academy of Arts, London	Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
29 October 2011 – 22 January 2012	Until 8 January 2012	1 October 2011 – 25 March 2012
Russian avant-garde architecture is the subject of an exhibition at the Royal Academy, which examines a brief, intense period of design that took place during the early 20th century. Large-scale photographs of buildings by Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginzburg and others will be displayed alongside constructivist drawings such as El Lissitzky’s sketch for Proun 6B (pictured), demonstrating the synthesis between art and architecture encouraged by the Soviet state. www.royalacademy.org.uk	The Hayward Gallery hosts a solo exhibition this month by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, whose video of supersized floating body parts Extremities (1999) we last saw at the 2009 Hayward group show, Walking In My Mind. Known for fusing images, music and text to create works, Rist presents in her latest exhibition more than 30 “playful, psychedelic and sensuous” multimedia installations drawn from throughout her career. www.southbankcentre.co.uk	LACMA has gathered more than 350 objects for an exhibition that tells the story of mid-century modernism in California. Featuring works by Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler and furniture displayed in full-scale interiors, the show explains how technology, progressive design ideals and the stimulus spending of the New Deal contributed to a distinctive “California look”. The show is part of a wider network of exhibitions titled Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. www.lacma.org



Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec	EXD’11/Lisboa	Tokyo Designers Week 2011
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz	Various venues, Lisbon	Meiji Jingu Gaien Kaigakan Mae Ground, Tokyo
7 October 2011 – 30 July 2012	Until 27 November 2011	27-30 October 2011 and 3-6 November 2011
From October, Centre Pompidou-Metz will dedicate 1,000sq m of gallery space to the first major retrospective of French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Since their partnership began in 1999, the Bouroullecs – best known for creating the Vegetal chair for Vitra and Clouds for Kvadrat (both 2009) – have worked with some of the industry’s biggest names. The show will also feature the pair’s more experimental projects, such as the Liane lights for Galerie Kreo in 2010. www.centrepompidou-metz.fr	“Useless” is the theme of the 2011 Lisbon Design Biennale, which attempts to interrogate the idea from a design perspective through exhibitions, talks and events. Questions include: “Why is being useless so politically and socially incorrect?” and “Is there a value to time spent doing nothing?” We’ll be looking for answers in Joseph Grima’s exhibition of infrastructural failures and Emily King’s Sidelines, a series of pointless collections including album covers, nail polish and sticks. www.experimentadesign.pt	As creative director of this year’s Tokyo Designers Week, Florian Busch Architects promise density, dialogues and a focus on the recent disasters. The two-part event will showcase the latest in design, but also invite participation from visitors through organized workshops and forums. It’s even up to visitors to decide the Designer of the Year, a prize which last year was awarded to Thomas Heatherwick. www.tdwa.com