Mexico City's Museo Jumex to Stage 'Football & Art' Exhibition During World Cup

"'Fútbol y Arte. Esa misma emoción'(Football & Art. A Shared Emotion) will open at the museum's David Chipperfield-designed building in the city's Polanco neighborhood on March 28 and run through July 26, the week after the World Cup Final in New York. Mexico City's Estadio Azteca will host five matches, including the opening one on June 11. Organized by Mexican art critic and independent curator Guillermo Santamarina, 'Fútbol y Arte' will bring together some 100 works by 60 artists from around the world."

"Architect Mauricio Rocha, known for his addition to the Museo Anahuacalli in 2021 and designing the studio of his mother, photographer Graciela Iturbide, will create the exhibition design that will see the museum transformed into various elements symbolic of the World's Game. The exhibition will be divided into different sections focused on "gender, community, identity, and universality, exploring both the playful power of the game and its critical and political dimensions," according to a release."

"The works on view will range from Marta Minujín's 1977 painting of a colossal blonde woman in bikini laying over a soccer stadium to a 2007 black-and-white photograph by Graciela Iturbide of a torn-up football net on a beach in Italy. More recent works include photograph documentation of an intervention by Melanie Smith and Rafael Ortega in which visitors held up dozens of posters to form an image of a pre-Columbian artifact at Estadio Azteca."

Museo Jumex will stage 'Fútbol y Arte. Esa misma emoción' from March 28 to July 26 in its David Chipperfield-designed building in Polanco, timed to coincide with World Cup events including matches at Estadio Azteca. Guillermo Santamarina curates a survey of roughly 100 works by 60 international artists. Mauricio Rocha will design an exhibition environment that transforms the museum into elements symbolic of football. The show is organized into sections on gender, community, identity, and universality, addressing both the playful and political aspects of the game. The presentation includes historical and recent works plus commissioned new pieces.

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