Amine El Gotaibi Moroccan, 1983
Today, it now seems that soccer is becoming a contemporary and improvised religion, a real unifying tool. This project was born out of Amine El Gotaibi’s incomprehension of the world’s devotion to soccer and its influence on the masses. Using an interdisciplinary approach, New religion aims to redefinne the concept of religious precepts that have united the masses over the years.
Concerned about the potentially worrisome e ects of this sport, El Gotaibi questions the irrational adoration it inspires, attempting to identify the void that exists in societies in which football is practiced as devoutly as any faith. Telephage, time-consuming and phagocyte of the mind, "soccer games have been able to create communion and synergy between people where religions have failed."
Expositions
Amine El Gotaibi, VISITE, solo exhibitionUntil July 2022
Catalogues
Amine El Gotaibi, artist monograph, MCC GALLERY, 2021- Tumblr
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Amine El GotaibiCaisse de pommes (Crate of apples), 2016Ink and intervention on paper152 x 114 cm
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Amine El GotaibiNouvelle religion - Briser 1 (New Religion - To Break 1), 2011Fine Art print on Hahnemühle paper74 x 110 cmEdition of 3 plus 2AP
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Amine El GotaibiTerrain Noir (Black Field), 2021Intervention on paper150 x 150 cm
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Amine El GotaibiPomme (Apple), 2016Intervention on paper120 x 90 cm
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Amine El GotaibiTerrain Vert (Green Field), 2021Ink and Intervention on paper150 x 150 cm
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Amine El GotaibiTerrain (Field), 2020Intervention on paper150 x 150 cm
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Amine El GotaibiNouvelle religion - Fil (New Religion - Thread), 2011Fine Art print on Hahnemühle paper74 x 110 cmEdition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
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Amine El GotaibiNouvelle religion -Piège (New Religion - Trap), 2011Fine Art print on Hahnemühle paper74 x 110 cmEdition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
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Amine El GotaibiBallon clouté (Nailed Ball), 2021Concrete and metal
Diameter 31 cm
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Amine El GotaibiBrebis Séduction (The seducing sheep), 2021Iron and wool100 x 150 x 30 cmEdition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs