Art & sports

The story of a series of over seventy paintings that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football.

The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation.

A unique document of America's gay rodeo subculture, National Anthem is a celebration of outsiders and the beauty of chosen families everywhere.

A series of paintings synthesising big wave surfing, turning the human element into a visual punctuation on the immense aquatic backdrop.

The portfolio of the exhibition conceived by the Jeu de Paume, offering a chronological look at the evolution of sporting practices since the end of the 19th century, through photographs by some thirty authors (René-Jacques, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paul Nadar, Marie-Paule Nègre, Bruno Réquillart, etc.).

A presentation of the fascinating architectural legacy of the Tokyo Olympic Games through two iconic buildings, the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium and the New National Stadium, highlighting the two world-renowned Japanese architects behind these projects: Kenzō Tange and Kengo Kuma.

Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, the first book by Ivan McClellan, offers an inside look at Black cowboy culture across the United States in the 21st century, creating a bridge between present and past through sports, community, and love of the land.

Montauk Surf Journals by surfer, artist and world traveler Tony Caramanico presents a stunning selection of his art representing his 60 years in and around surfing.

A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.

Through powerful portraits and incredible surf scenes, Brown W. Cannon III's book NORTH chronicles the lives of surf people—and the community around them—along the North Shore of O'ahu, Hawaii.

An artist book celebrating the first five issues of Grasso magazine.

The album of breathtaking images of wrestling matches made in the US in the late 1960s by a little Swiss boy who will become a photographer.

A "football-oratorio" that replays the 2006 World Cup final match between France and Italy.

Tennis Courts IV completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.

The 2020 edition of the Tour de France was canceled before being eventually postponed. Tour is a series of 101 photographs shot by Louis Canadas on the race's official route, during this period of uncertainty. Words are from Fanny Taillandier.

The first translation into French of a work by the Japanese philosopher, this book, based on photography and cinema, in dialogue with Cassirer, Heidegger, Marx and the authors of the Frankfurt School, proposes an aesthetic of resistance and rebound that is inseparable from the body and the struggles it involves.

A reflection treating the game of football as an expression of both individual and group "identity".

Spike's art & sport issue.

The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.

Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology, art, contemporary dance, architecture, economics, politics...). This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues, published between 2015-2017.

Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Oscar Oiwa, Brazilian artist of Japanese origin, draws from these three Olympic cities to which he is personally bound, a matter to question the world of today, inviting us to dive into his half-realistic mid-fantasy universe, where sometimes point humor and nostalgia.

Tennis Courts III completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.

A raw extraction from the email inbox of an aerobics teacher.

This artist's book gathers the 67 photographs that make up the contact sheet #234 of the photographs taken by Jef Geys during the 1969 Tour de France. Year of Eddy Merckx's first victory, the same day as the man's first step on the moon.

Considering the relations between art and football through the example of an artwork commissioned by the Red Star Football Club as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France: a polyptych composed of eight oil paintings on wood panels, offering different viewpoints of the stadium and the life of the club.

A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.

Designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic studio S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t, Fouad Bouchoucha's first monograph gathers a selection of his works along with four essays and an interview.

A rich and diverse panorama of football gestures selected from newspapers' photographs dating from 1990 to 2010. The aesthetic classification of these gestures opens to wider reflections on sport as choreography and artistic performance.

Sport shows & jubilating fans drawn with minimalism (artist's book).

Collected amateur photographs tell with a wistful eye the magical heyday of Motor sports from the sixties until the eighties.

The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich, covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.

In Mohammed Laouli's Golf project, residents of a poor neighbourhood nearby Rabat are invited by the artist to play golf in their own streets, thus subverting the signs of power.

Actions and discussions around personal skills in art and other disciplines, physical and film (performances, video), sports and burlesque.

The sport center designed by Rémy Marciano in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, South-East France, inspired Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou to write a poetic text on the athletic body.

Some thoughts on the invention of running.

Artist's book: Max Küng's collection of pensive racing drivers portraits.

A poetic text investigating the writing of desire.

By documenting football as it is played in Palestine, the photographer Amélie Debray offers a fresh perspective on Palestinian youth.

New monograph.

Art as a combat sport.

First monograph of the American artist and movie-maker.

First monograph devoted to the Spanish artist, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue.

An electroacoustic piece based on a recording of a Curling match, which reveals its unsuspected dramatic tension...

A collection of sound situations possible on a Serge analog modular synthesizer system.

Constructed around three themes—an essay, a series of interviews, and an exhibition catalogue—this publication studies the links between contemporary art and sport with a specific focus on the notion of game.

The first monograph and visual survey to explore the singular odyssey of John Severson, who revolutionized pop culture's vision of surfing and surf culture through his prolific artistic output that transverses decades and disciplines, through ephemera, painting, photography, film, and publishing.

The sport center Z5 in Aix-en-Provence originated from the desire of football glory Zinédine Zidane. This publication documents its conception by architect Christophe Gulizzi. It features a humoristic text on the creation of the stadium by mankind by writer Jean-Michel Espitallier.