The official inauguration of a sui generis exhibition conceived for Monterrey’s Museum of Contemporary Art is going to take place on November 15. Futbol. Arte y pasion is a reflection on one of the most popular social and cultural phenomenon worldwide, which incites readings beyond the ludic aspect, by dissecting this sport from ontological, anthropological, physical and market approaches.
Photography, video, installation, drawing, among other expressions, join the exhibition, starred by artists from different countries such as Gustavo Artigas, Fernando Bryce, Nicola Costantino, Wim Delvoye, Dario Escobar, Jonathan Hernandez, Priscilla Monge and Vik Muniz.
Over one hundred pieces, created by seventy modern and contemporary artists, are organized in four cores: Ontologia, Antropologia, Geometria & fisica, and Mercado & poder. The first one tackles the essence and identity of soccer through pieces such as Pinched ball (1993) by Gabriel Orozco; the second one analyzes different topics such as gender; while in the third core artworks created by Fabrice Hybert, Roman Signer and Felipe Barbosa promote the analysis of soccer from space parameters, where geometry and physics define the possibilities of the game. Finally, Mercado y poder examines the phenomenon of soccer as a show from its economic, media and politic dimensions with the proposals of Andy Warhol and Grazia Toderi, among others.
Patrick Charpenel and Mauricio Maillé, curators of the exhibition, have pointed out that the artistic representations of this sport date back from ancient times, when researches in terms of the physic man and anatomy studies were linked to beauty canons established by athletes. Today, it’s all about watching how a young sport, soccer, lives in the imaginary of artists as a social phenomenon, susceptible to be aesthetically and conceptually deconstructed.
The exhibition is going to be open through March 3, 2013.
Source: Press release
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