E, J, and L visit Calgary to see the amazing video installation about soccer superstar Zinédine Zidane at the Glenbow Museum. They simply COULD NOT MISS this chance to experience to see such a unique portrait of Zidane.
The show was shown on two WALL SIZE screens in a HUGE darken exibit room. Jasper loved the quiet meditative music, the soft leather couch, the espansive carpet, the nice darkness...a few couches lined the back of the huge empty room and E,J, and L snagged one of them for themselves and spent 90 min immersed. SO FUN.
Zidane was filmed during a championship match between Real Madrid and Villarreal on April 23, 2005. The artists, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, positioned 17 cameras throughout Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu stadium and directed a team of camera operators to remain fixed on the French soccer star throughout the entire match. The film has been composed utilizing footage from all 17 cameras and is projected on two large-scale screens in the gallery. Zidane's image is projected larger than life so that his every gesture and expression are emphasized. The video followed Zidane, not the ball!
This video installation of Gordon and Parreno's work was a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival when it debuted in 2006. Since then, it has toured internationally gathering critical acclaim.
(Douglas Gordon is part of the Young British Artists (YBAs) art movement famously associated with Damien Hirst. One of Gordon's best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film so that it lasts 24 hours. Philippe Parreno is an artist and filmmaker currently living in Paris, France. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA).) This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
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