So, Juan, Soccer Metropolis, Artwork United. Are you able to clarify the idea to us please?
“Effectively, the idea is to attempt to create a relationship between artwork and soccer. A few years in the past, I met the nice Hans-Ulrich [Obrist], who’s a famend artwork creator, and Josh [Willdigg], who was working with him, and I’d all the time been going to Whitworth Gallery and totally different galleries within the UK. Once I met him, I realised he beloved soccer and he got here up with the thought of attempting to do one thing collectively and join each worlds, which they hadn’t been linked sufficient, in my standpoint, in historical past. So right here we’re right now, after many conversations and calls, and attempting to get gamers with artists. We’ve a workforce of 11 footballers, with 11 artists, attempting to specific themselves in the absolute best means. And I believe it’s enjoyable. It’s been a studying course of for me, after all it’s very totally different to what I’m used to, however I’m actually pleased with the consequence and the exhibition.”
It is an attention-grabbing mixture of footballers isn’t it, some former Reds and a few not, gamers from everywhere in the world?
“After all, we’ve got a few former Reds, with Shinji Kagawa, who did an awesome manga with a Japanese artist, and, after all, Eric Cantona. For me, if I take into consideration an artist on the pitch, he was most likely the most effective artist on the pitch. The best way he performed soccer and every thing he did. He was totally different and distinctive. And so he was additionally very pleased and welcoming to the thought of becoming a member of. So, I’m very pleased and proud that he is without doubt one of the gamers in exhibition and I’m so pleased to be right here right now and to get to realize it for the primary time.”
We’ve additionally seen the masks from Ella Toone as effectively, that’s an attention-grabbing piece…
“Ella is nice. Since we talked along with her, she additionally was actually passionate about it. As you recognize, she’s filled with vitality and, yeah, she’s been nice in the entire course of. So it’s very good to see that she loved the method additionally.”
