On June 14, 2018 Goethe-Zentrum Baku presents an ‘Art and Football’ project that coincides with FIFA 2018 World Cup. Curated by Goethe-Zentrum Baku director Alfons Hug ‘Art and Football’ is an international video art exhibition with ten video works, a series of live concerts and football matches screening - all taking place at Kapellhaus from June 14 till July 15.
According to Mr. Hug: ‘With its narrative structure, visual language and allegorical richness, football, more than any other form of sport and, indeed, more than many other social phenomena, is ideal for being translated into art. Epic, dramatic, tragic and comic elements flow into this great game which, all the tables notwithstanding, still has something pre-modern and unproductive about it. The stream of events, which cannot be offset against one another, including periods of slack, flows into a kind of musical polyphonic structure.
As time-based art forms, film and video are particularly suitable for illuminating the time concepts of football and the diverse societies. The works projected in one large room, create harmony out of movement and sound, and generate an irresistible vortex of images.
Football is much more than a object filled with air, and rolling across a green field measuring 100 x 60 meters – it is a symbolic space for opportunities. And this is suggested by the spherical form of the ball itself, which, in many cultures, symbolizes the cosmos and time, and knows no end.
The Art and Football exhibition bring pictures to light that come from the "depth of space", to use a metaphor from the German football scene. There is always something sublime about an attack from this no-man's-land. The way the word "space" is used here does not primarily describe a physical dimension, but an abstract, spiritual dimension. The depth of the space seems to be extended until it becomes bottomless, indeed infinite, where a person's subconscious, imagination and collective memory are located. Artists and players are forever sounding out this incommensurable space.’
List of artists:
Lela Ahmadzai: A Woman's goal, Photography, 2011, 8:16 (Germany-Afghanistan)
Muu Blanco: Violencia abstracta, Video, 2013, 52:26 (Venezuela)
Paula Delgado: Sálvanos, Photography, 2012 (Uruguay)
Simon Gush: In the company of, Video, 2011, 8:26 (South Africa)
Orkhan Huseynov: Ball in The Game, Video, 2018, 30:20 (Azerbaijan)
Maria Ibrahimova: Barcelona - Manchester Alpan Village Match, Video with sound, 2018, 5:08 (Azerbaijan)
SuK-bureau for cultural implication - Bernd Klinger/Tatia Skhirtladze (Austria/Georgia): Matches, Video with sound, 2018, 2:00 (Georgia)
Dias/Riedweg: Peladas Noturnas, Video, 2011, 3:57 (Brazil)
Liddy Scheffknecht: Outshine, Video, 2001, 08:54 (Austria)
Michael Wesely: The ball and the time, Photography, 2012, 9:36 (Germany)
The ‘Art and Football’ exhibition is open daily from 14:00-20:00. Exhibition hours are extendedduring public sreening and live conserts. Concerts and football matches one-month schedule is listed below. All events are free entrance. Address: Kapellhaus, 28 May, 35.
Schedule of Matches and Concerts
June 14
18:00 - Art and Football exhibition opening
1st Round:
Match screening:
19:00 - 20:30 Russia-Saudi Arabia
Live Concert:
21:00 - MERİDİAN
June 15
Match screening
16:00 - 17:30 Egypt-Uruguay
19:00 - 20:30 Morocco - İran
June 16
Match screening:
14:00 - 15:30 France-Australia
17:00 - 18:30 Argentina-İslandiya
20:00 - 21:30 Peru-Denmark
Live Concert:
18:45 BAKUBA BAND
June 17
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Costa Rica-Serbia
19:00 - 20:30 Germany-Mexico
Live Concert:
18:00 RADIO & VIDEO
June 18
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Sweden-South Korea
19:00 - 20:30 Belgium-Panama
June 19
Game screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Colombia-Japan
19:00 - 20:30 Poland-Senegal
2nd Round
June 20
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Portugal-Morocco
19:00 - 20:30 Uruguay-Saudi Arabia
June 21
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Denmark-Australia
19:00 - 20:30 France-Peru
June 22
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Brazil-Costa Rica
19:00 - 20:30 Nigeria-Iceland
June 23
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 Belgium-Tunisia
19:00 - 20:30 South Korea-Mexico
Live concert
21:00 Ahmedowsky Trio
June 24
Match screening:
16:00 - 17:30 England-Panama
19:00 - 20:30 Japan-Senegal
3rd Round
July 25
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30 Saudi Arabia-Egypt
18:00 - 19:30 Uruguay-Russia
June 26
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30 Australia-Peru
18:00 - 19:30 Denmark-France
June 27
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30 South Korea-Germany
18:00 - 19:30 Mexico-Sweden
June 28
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30 Senegal-Colombia
18:00 - 19:30 Japan-Poland
1/8 Final
June 30
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
Live concert
20:00 Orkhan Efenedi & Uncle Band
July 1
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
Live concert
20:00 Cut out 2 Iyul / July 2
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
July 3
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
1/4 Final
Iyul 6
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
Live concert
20:00 H3 Collective
July 7
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
22:00 - 23:30
Live concert
20:00 Free from Four
1/2 Final
Iyul 10
Match screening:
22:00 - 23:30
Live concert
20:00 Dede Baba
July 11
Match screening:
22:00 - 23:30
Match for the 3rd place
July 14
Match screening:
18:00 - 19:30
Live concert
20:00 Dihaj
Final
July 15
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