Waiting for the Top #100
Top 100 was born in 2003 when Davide Bertocchi asked 100 curators and critics a very simple but symbolic question: the title of their favourite song. In reality, this request stresses the most basic aesthetic choice, a choice that is however, less evident in a period of unified global consensus.
Top 100 gathers the art world’s musical choices, with each choice assuming the importance of a radical and critical gesture. The vinyl version of each songs was pasted together and used as the wheels of an improbable sculpture-vehicle (a hybrid prototype between a kayak and Formula 1) that metaphorically “floats” on all of these song choices. The songs were also then published on a MP3 CD designed by Martin Pyper, in an edition of 500 entitled Top 100. In 2005 the project expanded to include another 100 personalities in the art world (this time mostly artists, but also curators and gallerists), and the relative compilation, Top 100 vol.2 was diffused via radio during the exhibition Radiodays at the De Appel in Amsterdam. The Top 100 vol.3 has been released in February 2007. The 3 compilations were broadcasted on Artwave Radio-Athens Biennale and recently on Radio Papesse, Siena. They were also included in John Armleder’s Artist Records Shop, Art Basel 07.
Top 100 vol.4 was launched 14th September 2009 during the opening of the Lyon Biennale and presented at the Fort de Bruissin as part of the exhibition No(t) Music. It was also featured in the exhibition The Store, curated by Adam Carr, at Tulips & Roses, Vilnius and Artissima 2009, Turin.
Top 100 vol.5 will be launched soon. The complete list is:
Marina Abramovic, A Constructed World, Shahidul Alam, Maria Thereza Alves, Carola Annoni, Cory Arcangel, Francesco Arena, Alessio Ascari, John Baldessari, Daniele Balit, Miroslaw Balka, Luca Massimo Barbero, Colette Barbier, Liliana Basarab, Pierre Beloüin, Daniel Birnbaum, Dominique Blais, Katinka Bock, Elena Bordignon, Sylvie Boulanger, Candice Breitz, Kerstin Brätsch, Cecilia Canziani, Etienne Chambaud, Mehdi Chouakri, Nataline Colonnello, Lauren Cornell, Bice Curiger, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Daria de Beauvais, Ann Demeester, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Cathryn Drake, Gilles Drouault, Jimmie Durham, Haris Epaminonda, Jacob Fabricius, Didier Faustino, Ettore Favini, Chris Fitzpatrick, Sylvie Fleury, Luca Francesconi, Aurélien Froment, Julien Fronsacq, Chiara Fumai, Dora Garcia, Francesco Garutti, Ida Gianelli, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tue Greenfort, Theodoulos Gregoriou, Antonio Grulli, Henrik Haakansson, Jeppe Hein, Fabrice Hybert, Anton Kern, Terence Koh, Johann König, Stéphane Kropf, Claire Le Restif, Beatrice Leanza, Luca Lo Pinto, Géraldine Longueville, Bartomeu Marí, Samuele Menin, Darius Mikšys, Viktor Misiano, Aaron Moulton, Ciprian Muresan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Melanie Ohnemus, Orlan, Tony Oursler, Virginia Overton, Lara Pan, Francesco Pantaleone, Florence Parot, Francesco Pedraglio, Adriano Pedrosa, Dan Perjovschi, Angelo Plessas, Luigi Presicce, Riccardo Previdi, Davide Quadrio, Judith Quentel, Dan Rees, Francesca Referza, Caterina Riva, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Dieter Roelstraete, Aïda Ruilova, Nana Seo Eun-A, Sissi, Annika Ström, Yann Sérandour, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sandra Terdjman, Massimiliano Tonelli, Luca Trevisani, Nicola Trezzi, Joris Van de Moortel, Neville Wakefield, Franz West, Jocelyn Wolff, Akram Zaatari, Raphaël Zarka, Li Zhenhua.
The all-time favourite songs previously selected are:
Top 100 vol.1 (2004)
Chiara Agnello, Marco Altavilla, Carlo Antonelli, Katia Anguelova, Hiroshi Atanaka, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Luca Beatrice, Pascal Beausse, Marcella Beccaria, Lorenzo Benedetti, Nicolas Bourriaud, Joris Brouwers, Jen Budney, Dan Cameron, Sonia Campagnola, Giovanni Carmine, Barbara Casavecchia, Fabio Cavallucci, Luca Cerizza, Stefano Chiodi, Giulio Ciavoliello, Gail Cochrane, Guido Comis, Caroline Corbetta, Antonella Crippa, Guido Curto, Roberto Daolio, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Maria Rosa Sossai, Emanuela De Cecco, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Anaïd Demir, Florence Derieux, Laurence Dreyfus, Owen Drolet, Robert Fleck, Nina Folkersma, Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, Lorenzo Fusi, Allessandra Galasso, Laura Garbarino, Laurence Gateau, Morena Ghilardi, Alison Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, Valentina Gnesutta, Silvia Grandi, Elio Grazioli, Claire Guezengar, Hou Hanru, Sara Harrison, Jens Hoffman, Sophie Jaulmes, Patrice Joly, Agnieszka Kurant, Emmanuel Lambion, Judicael Lavrador, Nicoletta Leonardi, Chiara Leoni, Andrea Lissoni, Filip Luyckx, Christine Macel, Eric Mangion, Gianfranco Maraniello, Gianluca Marziani, Olivier Michelon, Timo Mikkonen, Lucia Minunno, Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley, Guido Molinari, Heike Munder, John Peter Nilsson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Karin Pernegger, Cristiana Perrella, Cloe Piccoli, Marco Pierini, Vérane Pina, Karen Pinkus, Roberto Pinto, François Piron, Alexandre Pollazzon, Alessandro Rabottini, Pierre Restany, Michele Robecchi, David Rosenberg, Alma Ruiz, Emma Safe, Jérôme Sans, Gabi Scardi, Michael Schott, Serena Simoni, Franklin Sirmans, Claire Staebler, Bettina Steinbruegge, Yadranka Tolic, Alexis Vaillant, Philippe Vergne, Giorgio Verzotti, Andrea Viliani, Eric Wie, Lydia Yee, Giovanna Zapperi.
Top 100 vol.2 (2005)
Saâdane Afif, Andreas Angelidakis, Ziad Antar, Emmanuelle Antille, Stefano Arienti, Rael Artel, Micol Assael, Association Apsolutno, Ami Barak, Shumon Basar, Louidgi Beltrame, Elisabetta Benassi, Otto Berchem, Giasco Bertoli, Johanna Billing, Ilaria Bonacossa, Francesco Bonami, Paolo Boselli, Botto & Bruno, Andrea Bruciati, Nathalie Bruys, Mircea Cantor, Jota Castro, Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Cecchetti, Hsia-Fei Chang, Sadie Coles, Phil Collins, Mathieu Copeland, Martin Creed, Roberto Cuoghi, Massimo De Carlo, Mark Edwards, Esra Ersen, Bojan Fajfric, Urs Fischer, Shiho Fukuhara, Giuseppe Gabellone, Alessandra Galletta, Rainer Ganahl, Adriana Garcia Galan, Catherine Gibson, Liam Gillick, Piero Golia, Laurent Grasso, Krist Gruyhtuysen, Philippe Hardy, Matthew Higgs, Derek Holzer, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Kathrin Jentjens, Xander Karskens, Kolkoz, Surasi Kusolwong, Ingrid LaFleur, Jim Lambie, Mathieu Laurette, Jean-Yves Leloup, Andres Loo, Miltos Manetas, Mathieu Mercier, Thomas Michelon, Paul D. Miller a.k.a Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Sinisa Mitrovic, Elena Nemkova, Richard Niessen, Lupe Núñez-Fernández, Boris Ondreicka, Serkan Ozkaya, Ebru Ozsecen, Vincent Pecoil, Daniele Perra, Diego Perrone, Gerald Petit, Paola Pivi, Maria Ines Rodriguez, Anri Sala, Marc Sanchez, Uwe Schwarzer, Basak Senova, Marcello Smarrelli, Jan St. Werner, Rudolf Stingel, Ali Subotnick, Paul Sullivan, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Barthelemy Toguo, Caecilia Tripp, Huib Van der Werf, Martijn Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Gabriela Vanga, Costa Vece, Jelena Vesic, Anton Vidokle, Ki Wa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Veronica Wiman, Igor Zabel, Paolo Zani, Italo Zuffi
Top 100 Vol.3 (2006)
Anna Adahl, Michael Aerts, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Cecilia Andersson, John Armleder, Olivier Babin, Charles Barachon, Virginie Barré, James Beckett, Andrea Bellini, Simone Berti, Maura Biava, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Ilaria Bombelli, Thomas Boutoux, Nathalie Brambilla, Gavin Brown, Lorenzo Bruni, Loris Cecchini, Banu Cennetoglu, Paolo Chiasera, David Michael Clarke, Jean-Max Colard, Cristiana Collu, Daniel Daboczy, Jonas Dahlberg, Jan De Cock, Plamen Dejanoff, Wim Delvoye, Chris Dercon, Francesca Di Nardo, Nathalie Djurberg, Nico Dockx, Anne Dressen, Laura Erber, Nicolas Exertier, Milovan Farronato, Bernard Frize, Christian Frosi, Cyprien Gaillard, Stefania Galegati, Carlos Garaicoa, Edoardo Gnemmi, Loris Gréaud, Alice Guareschi, Joerg Heiser, Juul Hondius, Germana Jaulin, Samuel Keller, Giovanni Kronenberg, Vasif Kurtun, Luk Lambrecht, Gabriel Lester, Micheal Lin, Arto Lindsay, Hervé Loevenbruck, Sarah Lucas, Alessandra Mammi, Marina Martic, Bernd Milla, Simon Moretti, Sarah Morris,Tom Morton, Olivier Mosset, Fabiola Naldi, Carsten Nicolai, Mauro Nicoletti, Giancarlo Norese, Adrian Paci, Paolo Parisi, November Paynter, Bruno Peinado, Francesca Pennone, Natasa Petresin, Letizia Ragaglia, Rafael Rozendaal, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Alessandra Sandrolini, Tomas Saraceno, Wilhelm Sasnal, Marco Senaldi, Nicola Setari, Payam Sharifi, David Shrigley, Nedko Solakov, Georgina Starr, Nicolas Trembley, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Vedovamazzei, Sergio Vega, Angela Vettese, Francesco Vezzoli, Cesare Viel, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Luca Vitone, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Carey Young, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Andro Wekua
Top 100 Vol.4 (2009)
Cecilia Alemani, Mark Alizart, Carlos Amorales, Julieta Aranda, Oscar Aschan, Charles Avery, Roxana Azimi, Ruxandra Balaci, Ilaria Barbieri Marchi, Paco Barragán, Laura Barreca, Alessandro Bertolotti, Marc Bijl, Rossella Biscotti, Edoardo Bonaspetti, Achille Bonito Oliva, Olaf Breuning, Veronica Brovall, Adam Budak, Pierluigi Calignano, Adam Carr, Paola Clerico, Claude Closky, Peter Coffin, Paolo Colombo, Jerome Cotinet-Alphaize, Catherine David, Jeffrey Deitch, Elmgreen & Dragset, Charles Esche, Mariacristina Ferraioli, Hedwig Fijen, Michael Fliri, Emi Fontana, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Franck Gautherot, Kendell Geers, Gino Gianuizzi, Massimo Grimaldi, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Mika Hannula, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Max Hollein, Vincent Honoré, Anthony Huberman, Christian Jankowski, Norma Jeane, Mimmo e Angela Jodice, Juliette Jongma, Jesper Just, Seung-Duk Kim, Annika Larsson, Elisabeth Lebovici, Goshka Macuga, Benoît Maire, Raimundas Malasauskas, David Maljkovic, Victor Man, Francesco Manacorda, Kris Martin, Simone Menegoi, Francesca Minini, Aleksandra Mir, Mihnea Mircan, Jonathan Monk, Laurent Montaron, Maurizio Nannucci, Olaf Nicolai, Seb Patane, Javier Peres, Jorge Peris, Mai-Thu Perret, Emmanuel Perrotin, Alessandro Pessoli, Steve Piccolo, Renata Poljak, Michael Portnoy, Wilfredo Prieto, Filipa Ramos, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre-Olivier Rollin, Beatrix Ruf, Giuliana Setari Carusi, Chris Sharp, Dirk Snauwaert, Marina Sorbello, Elena Sorokina, Angelika Stepken, Adam Szymczyk, Samon Takahashi, Benjamin Thorel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Oscar Tuazon, Nico Vascellari, Philippe Van Cauteren, Xavier Veilhan, Felix Vogel, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Tris Vonna-Michell, Toby Webster, Rein Wolfs, Jordan Wolfson, Sislej Xhafa, Jonas Zakaitis, Matteo Zauli.
This project was kindly supported by:
Dena Foundation, Paris – Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena – Quarantine Series, Amsterdam – Palais De Tokyo – Tokyo Eat, Paris – ZeroDeux, Nantes – Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels – Radiodays-DeAppel, Amsterdam – Nuke Magazine, Paris – La Blanchisserie Galerie, Paris – Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome – Janus magazine, Brussels – Villa Romana, Florence – N.O. Gallery, Milan – B.P.S.22, Charlero
