Genoa, Palazzo Ducale celebrates 130 years of Genoa Calcio with works by Marco Lodola

On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the Genoa soccer team, in the halls of Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Marco Lodola (Dorno, 1955) presents works specially created for the occasion, distributing scenes that convey, through the poetry of the game of soccer, the joy of a victory or soothe the sadness in a tango. The ten light compositions, specially created by Marco Lodola in the colors of red and blue, celebrate this event that exalts not only Genoa ’s 130th anniversary but also the birth of soccer in Italy.

In fact, it was September 7, 1893, when the Genoa Cricket and Footbal Club was founded in Genoa, thanks to a group of English citizens living in Genoa who loved the game of football and opened a club in which, according to the custom of the time, several sports were practiced, such as, precisely, cricket and soccer. Instead, the first soccer championship, won by Genoa against Internazionale Torino, dates back to 1898.

Marco Lodola, born in Dorno(Pavia) in 1955, is one of the most important contemporary artists: he has exhibited his works in prestigious museum spaces around the world. A few examples: he was the first Western artist to hold an exhibition at the former archives of the Imperial City of Beijing in 1994; he participated in the XII Quadriennale in Rome, the VI Sculpture Biennale in Monte Carlo and the LIV Venice Biennale. And a self-portrait of him is in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. But Marco Lodola’s subjects belong to the culture we live every day to be conveyed with brilliant and recurring playfulness. Therefore, he has also linked his name and his art to events that have interested the general public, such as curating the image of the 2001 Venice Carnival, designing the poster for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, creating the facade of the Ariston Theater for the 2008 Sanremo Festival, and, in August of this year, the figure of the Assumption on the banner of the Palio of Siena. He also has always nurtured a great passion for music, which has led him to collaborations with 883 and Max Pezzali, Timoria, Omar Pedrini, Ron, Gianluca Grignani, etc. In this regard, he set up in 2009 in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo the Rock’n’Music Planet with twenty-five sculptures representing as many contemporary music personalities. Other scenic interventions of his have concerned and continue to concern fashion, cinema, and theater. In the current exhibition, characterized by the luminosity diffused by the works on display, one can admire at the center of the room “the imposing figure of the ’Griffin’ of almost three meters in height punctuated by the two colors that ideally claw theopponent of the turn and still make him succumb to its unattainable charm since the outcome of the contest is reflected, however, in our coat of arms, in the pride that accompanies it, in the immeasurable gift of primogeniture,” as curator Luciano Caprile writes in the text in the catalog. This is an emblematic work that the artist will donate to the club and the Foundation so that it can be exhibited and admired inside the Museum of the History of Genoa.

Exhibition produced by Fondazione Genoa 1893 ETS and Genoa Cricket and Football Club in collaboration with Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Palazzo Ducale.

Genoa, Palazzo Ducale celebrates 130 years of Genoa Calcio with works by Marco Lodola

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