The work is co-cured by the former United footballer and the Spanish national team Juan Mata and is developed by Factory International
Even in Manchester, a land of football and colorful memories for Inter, a timeless Nerazzurri legend found a home. The figure of Sandro Mazzola crossed the sleeve and in the English city has become a real installation signed by the study of Stefano Boeri, Archistar of proven Inter Faith. The work has a name that is a whole program, “The Playmaker”: it refers to the leadership and brilliant inventiveness of Mazzola, striker and director together, an artist in advance over the times. But also a single reference, both for the companions of the great Inter, twice champion of Europe and the world, and for those of the national team, with which he obtained the European Championship of 1968 and arrived in the final at the World Cup of Mexico ’70. In detail, the work is made up of three different cylindrical modules, as if they were miniature playing fields: on the ground, graphic motifs created by the Mexican artist Eduardo Terrazas and walls with circular holes, which refer the idea of the doors. In addition to connecting the spaces, they invite visitors to test themselves, to play: from path, the work therefore becomes an interactive challenge. Here you can kick you inspire to the legendary “Sandrino”, today 82 years old and the historical memory of the legendary team coached by the magician Herrera: that his old goals are reinvented or they create new ones, it doesn’t matter. Only the immersion and contamination between the two worlds counts. “Sandro Mazzola was one of the myths of my childhood and adolescence. Very fast, unpredictable, technical, he united the vision of a director and the determination of an attacker. The tribute to Mazzola is the tribute to an ‘architect of football’, capable of anticipating the movements of others with a shot”, commented Boeri.
The work queen
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“The Playmaker” was created for the “Manchester International Festival” and is inside the exhibition called “Football City, Art United”. It is co-curato, among others, by the former United and the Spanish national team, Juan Mata, and is developed by Factory International, a project involving 11 artists and 11 world-renowned players with the aim of making art and football dialogue without more absurd fences. The installation of the Boeri studio, a queen work of the exhibition that can be visited until August 24 in the Aviva Studios of Manchester, is located at the center of the exhibition space, but is also surrounded by the ten signed by artists and footballers, including Edgar Davids, another former Nerazzurri even if only in passing after seven seasons at Juve, and Eric Cantona, one of the greatest legends in the history of the Red Devils. When there is a pure champion, the art and the ball chase each other and become the same universal language: those who, like Boeri, has seen Sandrino Mazzola played, like Boeri.