OOF #15

Maurizio Cattelan | William Cobbing | Nicole Chui | Lucy Gunning | Peter Robinson| Marcin Dudek | John Davies

When he's not taping bananas to walls or letting his golden toilets get nicked, contemporary art prankster Maurizio Cattelan is busy being quietly, surprisingly obsessed with football. And over the years, he has become one of the greats of football art. The sport has been in his work right from the very start, and issue 15 of OOF celebrates the way he's turned sporting defeat into artistic glory, fandom into memorabilia, a team into a conceptual installation, and foosball into a mass participation event. Elsewhere in this issue we've got: William Cobbing's clay-spattered football warzone, Lucy Gunning's intimate portrait of a kickabout, Nicole Chui's embroidered images of amateur football, an interview with photography great Peter Robinson, an exploration of the stadium as prison by Oliver Basciano and Marcin Dudek, and a deep dive into John Davies' stunning photo of Agecroft Power Station (with some Sunday league in the foreground). Classic bloody OOF.