The Museo Jumex, a personal museum in Mexico Metropolis established by high collector Eugenio López Alonso in 2013, hopes to attain a golazo with considered one of its exhibitions subsequent yr, timed to the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
“Fútbol y Arte. Esa misma emoción”(Soccer & Artwork. A Shared Emotion) will open on the museum’s David Chipperfield–designed constructing within the metropolis’s Polanco neighborhood on March 28 and run by way of July 26, the week after the World Cup Ultimate in New York. Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca will host 5 matches, together with the opening one on June 11.
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Organized by Mexican artwork critic and unbiased curator Guillermo Santamarina, “Fútbol y Arte” will convey collectively some 100 works by 60 artists from world wide. Architect Mauricio Rocha, identified for his addition to the Museo Anahuacalli in 2021 and designing the studio of his mom, photographer Graciela Iturbide, will create the exhibition design that can see the museum reworked into varied components symbolic of the World’s Sport.
The exhibition will likely be divided into completely different sections centered on “gender, group, id, and universality, exploring each the playful energy of the sport and its essential and political dimensions,” in keeping with a launch.
The works on view will vary from Marta Minujín’s 1977 portray of a colossal blonde girl in bikini laying over a soccer stadium to a 2007 black-and-white {photograph} by Graciela Iturbide of a torn-up soccer internet on a seaside in Italy. Newer works embrace {photograph} documentation of an intervention by Melanie Smith and Rafael Ortega by which guests held up dozens of posters to type a picture of a pre-Columbian artifact at Estadio Azteca.
Melanie Smith in collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Estadio Azteca, Proeza maleable (Estadio Azteca, Malleable Deed), 2010.
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The Museo Jumex has additionally commissioned Diego Berruecos, Iñaki Bonillas, and Sofía Echeverri to make new work for the exhibition, whereas Mexico Metropolis–primarily based artist Clotilde Jiménez has created the exhibition’s visible id. Within the museum’s outside plaza, Mexican artist collective Tercerunquinto will current Tribunas (Stands), a sculptural set up of bleachers produced from recycled seats from Estadio Azteca.
The Museo Jumex isn’t the one museum to take a look at the hyperlink between artwork and sports activities. Final yr, the San Francisco Museum of Trendy Artwork organized a 200-plus work exhibition titled “Get within the Sport: Sports activities, Artwork, Tradition,” which is at the moment on view on the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, and can journey to the Pérez Artwork Museum Miami subsequent yr. This fall, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Artwork in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, opened “Private Finest,” an exhibition showcasing the work of six native artist-athletes.
In a press release about “Fútbol y Arte,” Santamarina mentioned, “Categorically, fashionable visible tradition finds its most resplendent peak within the community of representations and social rituals associated to the sport of soccer. Soccer is a system of creativeness and data that lives and breathes the advanced actuality of the human species within the twenty first century, and certainly, the incalculable feelings round it.”
