The most beloved sports temple in Italy, Football Museum in Coverciano (Florence) hosts in the occasion of the Italian team's beginning its world cup adventure, the artistic set up of Antonio Lo Pinto.
«Calcio d'inizio», is the name of the work and the video which will remain on display until the 30th of June in the halls of the Museo del calcio, and it means to be a good luck message for the Italian expedition to Japan.
The sculpture depicts a portion of field with sizes 4 metres by 3, where at the centre there is a Carrara marble and onix football in real size. Next to it, the presence of a feminine figure in traditional Far East attire: the kimono.
To support the installation a monitor uninterruptedly transmits a film that lasts six minutes called «Palla '02», which offers an artistic and certainly exciting interpretation, of some flashes from a futuristic football field.
Inspiring season mixes of football played and virtual videogame football, elaborate effects and assembly techniques and a particularly effective sound track accompany the video's clue moments: that on juggling and the dialogue between the trainer of a youth team and a pupil of his.
The Museo del calcio, opened in 2000 as temple and custodian of all the great successes of the Italian team in the past World Cups, hosts rare objects such as the shirts on the 1936 World Cup winner players, over 40 thousand photographs collected from 1898 to today and over 700 historical short films.
Museo del calcio
Where: V.le A. Palazzeschi, 20 Coverciano - Florence
Opening times: working days 0900-1300 and 1600-1800; Saturday 0900-1300. Closed Sundays
Info: Freephone 800-485499
Entry tickets: 3 euro (with audio guide); conc. And groups 1,5 euro
May.2002
Museo del calcio (In Italian)
E-mail: Museo del calcio
