Biella investigates the world of soccer through contemporary art

From November 25, 2022 to January 28, 2023, BI-BOX Art Space gallery in Biella presents the exhibition Beyond The Game, offering a selection of works created by Giulia Iacolutti and Giovanni Ambrosio dedicated to the game of soccer.

Curated by Marco Bianchessi, the exhibition is proposed as an active space for reflection, in which sport leaves the strictly performative dimension and intertwines with reality, with the aim of highlighting different problematic aspects related to what is currently the most popular game in the world. The works interrogate the complexity of soccer as a social aggregator, as an instrument of cohesion with an inclusive focus, and as a means of identity creation. The space of the playing field becomes a place of discovery of the other.

Sport is thus narrated as a privileged observation stand of understanding reality through Ambrosio’s photographic series Ultras Youth and collages from Iacolutti’s collection I don’t care (about football). The exhibition stems from the premise, although soccer is the most popular and played sport in the country, that it is not matched by an equally in-depth narrative. The relationship between official institutions and the sports world seems unbalanced, and hardly any real interest emerges of the official culture in looking at soccer as a complex phenomenon that can offer a novel look at reality. The cultural establishment has often branded sports stories and narratives as irrelevant, or popular in nature; the culture industry has treated sports poorly, giving it at best a parodistic character.

Image: Giulia Iacolutti, I don’t care (about football)

Biella investigates the world of soccer through contemporary art

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