DOUGLAS GORDON & PHILIPPE PARRENO
"Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait"
NOVEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 14 2008
"To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive." Zinédine Zidane
From the press release: The work focuses on French football player Zinédine Zidane, one of the greatest athletes of our time. During a game between his team at the time, Real Madrid, and Villareal on April 23, 2005, Zidane was monitored by 17 cameras registering his every step, movement and facial expression. Acting on behalf of the artists, the camera crew was guided by the renowned cinematographer Darius Khondji, famous for his work with "Delicatessen" (1991) and "Se7en" (1995). The soundtrack to the film was made specially by the Scottish band Mogwai.
Tessa Praun, curator: "Through this very different way of documenting a football player at work, Gordon and Parreno have created a unique real-time document. Despite the film's suggestive atmosphere, a parallel can be drawn with nature films as a genre - we observe at a distance, we study strange events, and because of the skilfully recorded images and sounds from the stadium, we sometimes feel as though we are standing on the pitch with Zidane".
Douglas Gordon
Born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland. Lives and works in Berlin.
Douglas Gordon made his major breakthrough with the acclaimed work "24 Hour Psycho" (1993) in which Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" (1960) is shown in a slow motion 24-hour long version. Gordon often uses existing material such as cult movies or documentaries and his work often focuses on the concept of memory but also on concepts in oppostion such as innocence and guilt, good and evil. To challenge video as a medium, he employs repetition and shifts in time. Douglas Gordon has won several prestigious awards, including the Turner Prize in the UK (1996), Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale (1997) and the Hugo Boss Award in New York (1998). His most recent exhibition in Stockholm was in 1999, as part of Moderna Museet Projekt.
Philippe Parreno
Born in 1964 in Oran, Algeria. Lives and works in Paris.
In his work, Philippe Parreno focuses on the relationship between reality, depiction and interpretation, while challenging the traditional exhibition as a presentation format. Based on material from public contexts, he adds his own ideas, often in the form of narratives. A characteristic trait of his art is his preference for collaborating with other artists, as in the work "No Ghost Just A Shell" (2001). Together with Pierre Huygue he bought the rights for the Japanese manga figure AnnLee to save her from inevitable death in the rapidly growing manga animation industry. Philippe Parreno writes for several art magazines and contributes regularly to the Italian publication Domus.
CONTENTS:
Prologue by David Neuman, director Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Essay for
Exhibition Catalogue no 39 by Tessa Praun, curator
WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait, 2006
Video installation, 91 min.
Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italien
"Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait", 2006
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"THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL AT MAGASIN 3"
November 27 at 7pm
Café, bar and mingle. Free admission.
In conjunction with the exhibition we present an evening program including film screening, bar and special guests. Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf, professor of art history at Stockholm University and Henrik Ystén, editor in chief for Offside Magazine will talk about their shared fascination with football.
During the evening the artwork "Numéro 10", 2006 (120 min) by Massimo Furlan - a filmed performance from Parc des Princes, Paris - is screened.
ABOUT HENRIK YSTÉN
Editor in chief for Offside Magazine
"I have been working as a journalist for more than a decade, mostly within sports and lately only covering football. I've written three books on the theme: "Djurgĺrden - Drömmen om Europa", "Sĺ funkar fotboll" (in collaboration with Rit-Ola Andersson) and "Utmanarna - sĺ ska Elfsborg vinna SM-guld" (...)
My greatest moment in my career was when I accidentally came to the same restaurant as Zinédine Zidane, at Via del Corso in Milan earlier this year, and had the opportunity to say hello to one of the greatest of all time."
ABOUT MARGARETHA ROSSHOLM-LAGERLÖF
professor of art history at Stockholms University
"I'm interested in football partly because I know that millions of peopple are hooked in a similar way (...) I'm not very knowledgeable in the field of football; the teams, their history, tactics etc. My interest revolves mostly around the direct experience of the game, its extreme sharpness and the inexplicable skill of top players (...)"
ABOUT MASSIMO FURLANS VERK "NUMÉRO 10"
Massimo Furlan is an Italian artist born in Lausanne, Switzerland
"We enter the empty stadium. On the field, a man, alone. He wears the jersey of France's national football team. Number 10. We hear the national anthems, the French and then the German. The storyteller is seated in the middle of the public. He tells us about the semi final match of the 1982 world cup, between France and Germany. We are in Seville, Spain. We hear the voice of the commentator emitted by the small radios we received upon entering the stadium. It is a famous voice, which we immediately relate to the world of football. The match begins. The small blue man runs across the field, he is Michel Platini. He re-enacts conscientiously Michel Platini's every movement, every gimmick he did that night. History starts over again. From the stadium's empty terraces, we hear the voices of the spectator's from 1982. There are ghosts on the field as well. We live once again and remember the 1982 match, submerged by its sublime dramaturgy and by emotions. Nobody has forgotten. We find ourselves dreaming, even though we already know the story and its tragic end. We shout, we yell, we sing, we become actors, we fill the stadium's emptiness with our imaginary. We believe -or do as if we believed- until the end of the story.
Number 10
Number 10 is considered the artist, the creator of a team, the one from whom one expects innovation, the stroke of genius that will win the match. Number 10 is the leading role.
Michel Platini, a son of an Italian immigrant, doesn't ask himself questions relating to his identity. He is French. Torino's Juventus team leader, admired by all Italians, considered as one of the best players of all times. In France, he embodies the model, the dream of a whole generation of football players."
About the performance from the artist's website: http://www.massimofurlan.com
COLLABORATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
The Heart-Lung Foundation, http://www.hjart-lungfonden.se/
The French Embassy, http://www.ambafrance-se.org/
The French Institute, http://franskainstitutet.thalasoft.com/
PRESS CLIPPINGS (in Swedish)
Birgitta Rubin's interview published in Dagens Nyheter 2007-02-06
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=614322
Clemens Poellinger's interview published in Svenska Dagbladet 2007-02-08
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_14583128.asp
Cristina Karlstam's review published in Upsala Nya Tidning 2007-02-10
http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,1786,MC=5-AV_ID=578856,00.html
Towe Matre's feature, broadcasted by Radio P1, Studio 1
http://www.sr.se/webbradio
Cecilia Blomberg's review broadcasted by Radio P1, Kulturnytt
http://www.sr.se/webbradio
