Stadium

Artistic work - installation art/ performance
Stored in
Archivio Maurizio Cattelan
Work technique
performance and sculpture
Year
Work dimensions
ambient dimension

Presented for the first time in 1991 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, the performance stages a foosball table over six meters long, in which two teams compete composed of 22 participants each. The first is made up of white skinned players and the other of Senegalese workers who immigrated to Veneto. Cattelan's work establishes a direct connection between the national passion for football and a problem like that that is still current and rooted in society of the migrant and refugee crisis. Reflecting on the growing xenophobic climate of the early 1990s, the artist subverts the logic of racial conflicts with the usual irony that belongs to him, criticizing the failed models of integration, employment and entertainment adopted towards refugees who arrived in Europe from poorer countries.