Speaking of Sehgal
Tino Sehgal punks Frieze’s Jörg Heiser; gallerist Jan Mot delivers the blow:
“I summoned my courage – and asked Mot straight to his face whether he and Tino had parted company. ‘Parted what?’ he replied, ‘what do you mean?’. I was perplexed. Was he saying that he didn’t understand why I could have assumed that? Or was he saying that he – as a Belgian talking to a German in English – didn’t know the phrase ‘to part company’? Or was he just in a sorry state of denial? Confused I asked if the Tino Sehgal show was actually supposed to be on, or whether it had been postponed? In the very moment I asked that question something dawned on me, but before I could say something, Mot answered my question, and I can’t recall what exactly he said, but the sentence definitely included the phrase ‘this is critique’.
Ouch. Shit. Of course. ‘Are we in the middle of doing the Sehgal piece?’ I asked, and felt silly the moment I uttered it. Of course we were doing it.”
+ Greetings from the Benelux Pt. 1 (Frieze)
