one shot! exhibition at B.P.S.22

‘untitled’ by taku anekawa, 2009, mixed media © taku anekawaone shot! football and contemporary art B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation, charleroi – belgium 6 march – 11 july 2010

B.P.S.22, the space for contemporary creation in charleroi, belgium has scheduled a major exhibition dedicated to contemporary art and football: ‘one shot’, which will run from 6 march to 11 july 2010. the exhibition approaches numerous facets of this popular sport in connection with a multitude of challenges of the contemporary world. it also brings out the relationship that current artists maintain with the universe of football.

‘brescia di merda’ by andrea mastrovito, 2000, paint © andrea mastrovitofollowing text from the press release:

‘football, the most popular sport in the world, brings together an incalculable number of fervent fans and occasional spectators. this popularity, accentuated by major media coverage, increased further in europe with the victory of france and the “black-blanc-beur” during the 98 world cup. this same victory also succeeded in reconciling the strata of the population around the round ball: while the preceding decades, primarily in french-speaking countries, had been marked by a certain intellectual ‘anti- football’ culture, today this sport benefits from the attention of all levels of society.’

‘dirty balls’ by kendell geers, 2002-2006, installation (masks, footballs, net) © kendell geers‘point of departure of the exhibition: two emblematic works that illustrate in particular the gradual installation of football in the media landscape – a video portrait of zidane by douglas gordon and philippe parreno and a video portrait of george best by hellmuth costard. between these two filmed works, more than thirty years have passed, marked by fundamental changes in the world, for which the exhibition presented at the B.P.S.22 is intended to be an echo through works which approach or question football and its connections.’

‘faces of football (zidane)’ by mathias & monika braschler fischer, 2005-2006, photo © mathias & monika braschler fischer‘a lot of facets connected with this sport have been explored in this way and will be presented at B.P.S.22, among them, the ritual dimension of the fans, the links between politics and football, the violence of some ‘ultras’, the playful, friendly aspect of this sport, its emotional element connected with memory and with childhood, the media celebration of certain phases of play, financial corruption, popular traditions, the financial stakes of the major brands and the production conditions of merchandising, the cliché of the stay-at-home woman and the man who is sporty and/or a consumer of sport, etc.’

‘série népstadion’ by maria zgraggen, 2005, inkjet printing on mat © maria zgraggen

featured artists include: juan pérez agirregoikoa (1963, spain) taku anekawa (1970, japan), roderick buchanan (1965, UK) paolo canevari (1963, italy), mathias braschler & monika fischer (switzerland), joseph châtelain (belgium) claude closky (1963, france) hellmuth costard (1940 – 2000, germany) josef dabernig (1956, austria) laurent dandois (belgium) robert davies (UK) stephen dean (1968, france) wim delvoye (1965, belgium) raoul de keyser (1931, belgium) democracia (spain) marie denis (1972, france) julius deutschbauer (1961, germany) patrick everaert (1962, belgium) harun farocki (1944, czech republic) massimo furlan (1965, switzerland) cyprien gaillard (1980, france) kendell geers (1968, south africa) laurent grasso (1972, france) andreas gursky (1955, germany) julie henry (1959, UK) jamie holman (UK) ingeborg lüscher (1936, germany) this lüscher (1969, switzerland) laurent mareschal (1975, france) andrea mastrovito (1978, italy) eugenio merino (1975, spain) aleksandra mir (1967, poland) priscillia monge (1968, costa rica) gianni motti (1958, italy) philippe parreno (1964, france)  douglas gordon (1966, UK) laurent perbos (1971, france) guillaume poulain (1972, france) psjm (spain) jean-pierre ransonnet (1944, belgium) walter swennen (1946, belgium) pascale marthine tayou (1967, cameroon) uri tzaig (1965, israël) yoann van parys (1981, belgium) marijke van warmedan (1959, netherlands) maria zgraggen (1957, switzerland)