GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION
Free
Opening times: From one hour before kick-off on all World Cup match days.

Confirmed artists include world renowned designer and typographer Jonathan Barnbrook (David Bowie’s Blackstar and Damien Hirst publication I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life…), Brendan Dawes (digital artist and designer who has work in the permanent collection at MoMA, NY), Craig Oldham (In Loving Memory Of Work) and Kat Gibb (long time Chemical Brothers collaborator).

I Don’t Love Soccer Because Soccer Has Never Loved Me takes a critical look at “the beautiful game” through the lens of graphic design and illustration. The exhibition presents artwork from an international selection of graphic artists made in response to an essay titled The World Cup And Its Pomps written in 1978 by the famous Italian semiotician, intellectual and writer, Umberto Eco. Published in his collection of essays Travels In Hyperreality (1986), Eco links football “with the absence of purpose and the vanity of all things” questioning the corrosive banality of its punditry, its inherent prejudice and exclusivity and its (a)political morality. The essay concludes with Eco asking rhetorically: “Is the armed struggle possible on World Cup Sunday… Is revolution possible on a football Sunday?”

Event Date: Friday 29th June 2018 - Sunday 15th July 2018

Categories: #Liverpool2018 | Accessible event | Arts | Family | Free

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