Thanks to SuperTouch, we are able to offer a look into the Art Basel 2008 show.Art Basel is essentially the largest contemporary art fair out. While the show also hits Miami, these items are from the original Swiss outpost. We’ve picked a few of our favorites, including some examples from Nike’s Art of Football. All a bit of artistic fun for this years European Cup.
More selections after the jump.
Design Boom reports in on the Dominic Wilcox’s creations for Nike’s "Art of Football." "Dominic Wilcox was asked by Nike to design a series of works for their ‘Nike 1/1‘ and ‘Art of Football’ projects. In response he created three projects, ‘cave’, ‘top corner’ and ‘blocks’ all using miniature football players. ‘Cave’ is a shoe box of sorts designed for your most prized footwear. the form is made from tiny football figurines formed into a massive nest. inside, a plinth holds the shoes in place. next up he designed ‘top corner’ a large silhouette of a football player made once again from small figurines. finally ‘blocks’ uses the figurines to create 20 blocks which requires over 8000 small pieces. in total, 13000 plastic footballers, 540 tubes of superglue and 50 tubes of plastic glue were used to create the series of works."
With the soccer championships just around the corner, Nike launched a very interesting new project – Nike 1/1.
Nick Knight was chosen as the curator of the project. He chose 11 established talents in 11 countries in Europe to work with him. These associates invite artists in their countries to submit works on the topic “Art Of Football”. Then Nick Knight and the 1/1 associates select a short list of artists to present works on the topic. The 11 best pieces out of this section are chosen to exhibit in Basel during Art Basel this summer. One final winner will also see his artwork appear on a limited edition series of Nike Dunks and furthermore the best works overall will be published in the 1/1 Art Book.
A great project. We are already curious what the results will be. We will be reporting more in the near future on the project.
Anybody can participate and send in work. All you have to do is go to the dedicated website of the project.
