As I mentioned yesterday, I spent the earlier part of this week having an art fuelled staycation in the heart of London, participating in Le Méridien Piccadilly‘s blogger thingy centred around this year’s Frieze Art Fair. I had a blast, saw a lot of amazing art, got to know the Le Méridien brand fairly well and learned about the hotel’s commitment to the arts and support of the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to Benefit the Tate Collection.
First up on my Méridien art itinerary was an early morning visit to the Serpentine Gallery for a guided tour of the Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures exhibition. The show runs until 18 November and is certainly worth your time … as well as its own stand alone blog post – stay tuned!
A gorgeous, sunny autumn day, the visit to this Hyde Park gallery provided a fantastic opportunity to simply sit in the sun and take in the restful atmo of the Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei pavilion one last time (it will close on Sunday).
While at the Serpentine, I caught wind of what’s coming up this weekend to mark the closing of the pavilion: the Memory Marathon. With decent weather forecasted for today and tomorrow, the Schütte exhibition and a full-on program of events featuring big name peeps like Michael Stipe and David Lynch along with neuro-scientists, robotics engineers, a scent expert and such putting on their arty pants and doing their thing in “a glowing, geodesic dome”, this seventh annual “festival of ideas” should be a hoot.
Inspired by the annual Pavilion commission, the multi-disciplinary event offers a “continuous, performative programme of explorations, musical and theatrical performances, film screenings, discussions and experiments” starting this evening, Friday 12 October. More:
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2012/10/memory_marathon.html
