by American artist Jean-Ulrick Désert is an interactive installation-sculpture for the Exhibition “Ein Spiel-viele Welten (One Game-Many Worlds)” in the lobby of the Stadtmuseum München.
The artist focuses on football (*soccer) fan culture eccentricities, typified by fanatic fans and hooligans. Visitors to the museum and the general public are invited by the artist to participate as models in a fan-costume created fo this exhibition. An on-going growing collection of digital fotos in the museum lobby allows the public to be part of a historic exhibition.
Mr. Desert’s artwork significantly avoids affiliations with specific soccer clubs, sponsors or nations. The archetypes of tribalism are all the more made visible in “THE PASSION”.
The Artist would like to extend many thanks regarding THE PASSION and its support to Patricia Müller of the Landeshaupstadt München Kulturreferat and her collaborators at the Stadtmuseum Karin Guggeis and Director Dr.Wolfgang Till. Irene Schoeller and her organizational team and security at the Stadtmuseum. Karin Sommer director of the Villa Waldberta am StarnbergerSee, Exhibition designers Udo Vollmer & Thomas Hamann, Joachim Hausknecht and Andrea Naica Loebell, art assistants Karen Ernst and Devcharya Hamann, Peter Buchheit (Tischlerei), Tamiko Thiel and Ada Gerowitt, for their generous hospitality
This project was also presented at the Jack Shainman Gallery in "The Color Line" curated by artist and color-theorist Odili Donald Odita
- 1. A lecture was given by the artist based on his research on Football (Soccer) Hooligan and Fan culture for this art project. Notes and images may be found in his Diary blog
