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\"Ryan Lisson Gallery staff wearing customised Adidas zx 750 trainers by Ryan Gander and Kazuki Kuraishi, 2014.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the Lisson-Galerie<\/a> booth at the Frieze<\/a> art fair were greeted by an unusal sight: gallery assistants clad in two-tone linen uniform \u2013 a cross between evening wear and workers\u2019 overalls. Some wore USB drive necklaces as accessories or pristine white sneakers designed to look like they collided with a puddle on their way to the tent through Regent\u2019s Park. Devised as interventions to the format of the fair booth, the special edition gear was designed by artist Ryan Gander<\/a>. Yet Gander\u2019s interventions were subject to an intervention of their own: fellow artist Cory Arcangel<\/a>, who printed a selection of his iconic Photoshop Gradient Demonstrations on the booth\u2019s carpeted floor, showed an instructional piece where another sneaker-clad employee, sporting Arcangel Surfware hoodie and cap, used the art fair\u2019s Wifi to download and watch Anchorman II on an iPad while on the job. Sleek did an impromptu interview with Gander to find out more about his designs, and got some important life advice on the way.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan Coy Arcangel, “Anchorman II”. Laptop and software, art worker(s), art fair WiFi, Anchorman II. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.<\/p>\n

Sleek: The trainers you designed look like the person wearing them stepped into a puddle of mud. Is it because the way to the fair might be messy in the rain?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: It\u2019s taken from the whole Glastonbury festival thing, where people get new trainers especially to go to the festival. In the north of England, in working class culture, having a new pair of trainers that are perfectly clean feeds back into a certain hierarchy, and making them artificially dirty is a spin on that.<\/p>\n

Sleek: Do you think it will catch on and will one day be as natural as buying a pair of distressed, stone-washed jeans? <\/b><\/p>\n

RG: Well, for now there are only a thousand of them and they\u2019re all hand-painted with a special emulsion with gravel in it to make it more like mud.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan Ryan Gander, “Ghandi Suit”, 2014. Courtest of the art and Lisson Gallery.<\/p>\n

Sleek: Tell me about the two-tone suits \u2013 how did they come about?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: There\u2019s a label in Tokyo called CASH CA<\/a> \u00a0and another one called A.FOUR<\/a> – I made a linen suit with them based on the prison uniform that Gandhi wore. It\u2019s half brown half cream, and it has tails like a morning jacket. You could get them in Selfridges and there\u2019ll also be another design of sneakers to go with them with Adidas. Those sneakers are one side white, and the other side is covered in sketches. They\u2019re printed, and it\u2019s the first time Adidas printed individual pieces of leather like that. They invested a lot of research considering there are only a thousand of them! I worked with Kazuki Kuraishi on them.<\/p>\n

Sleek: You made them come up with a new technique to make these?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: You have to push things forward! I actually don\u2019t even have any yet. But I\u2019ve got friends who are a bit geeky about trainers and they got them on the internet from Berlin. They\u2019re distributed more like editions, so they\u2019re sent all over the world to small retailers.<\/p>\n

Sleek: You do a lot collaborative work with brands on products that enter a different kind of market than your art work. What\u2019s the attraction for you?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: It\u2019s different to art but I do a lot of stuff like that, I recently designed a kitchen sink! I do consultancy, public art\u2026 I don\u2019t just make art, so I\u2019m quite used to the art\/commerce or art\/business crossover. It\u2019s good to bring good ideas into different realms.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan Ryan Gander, “Ghandi Suit”, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.<\/p>\n

Sleek: You collaborated with Cory Arcangel on the interventions in the Lisson booth, did you two exchange notes?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: Cory is a really good friend, so I feel like\u2026 life is a collaboration with friends. Everything you do, really! The difference between life and art is so seamless anyway, and then friends are in your life, so it\u2019s all kind of living and learning and working\u2026and playing and discovering and learning\u2026 it\u2019s good! It\u2019s like cooking a really difficult meal.<\/p>\n

Sleek: You make life sound like endless fun. Is that your natural positive attitude?<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: I think art is like the thickener to happiness. I mean, I could have done any job. Well, not any job. I couldn\u2019t have been an investment banker or a fireman, there are lots of things I couldn\u2019t do. If you\u2019re going to decide what job you should do, you should decide to do a job that\u2019s going to make your life amazing. Art makes your life exciting and interesting. You get up in the morning and you have to go to Cambridge because you\u2019re helping build a restaurant and a hospital, the next day you fly to Japan to meet someone at Adidas, and the next day you\u2019re at the studio, and the day after you stay in bed and take it all in. It\u2019s fun, fun, fun!<\/p>\n

Sleek: I get the impression you\u2019re not a big fan of routines.<\/b><\/p>\n

RG: No, I hate routines. I spent a lot of time in hospital when I was a child so my days were totally routine and institutional. So maybe this is my way of flushing that sort of anal order away.<\/p>\n

Interview by Hili Perlson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out more Frieze coverage hier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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