Do art and football go together? OOF is a new magazine that believes they have been bound together for a long time. In match programme format, OOF tackles a broad range of subject matter to look at how football has influenced art and artists, uncovering various milestones, passions, beliefs and hidden signifiers. You don't have to be massively into either pursuit to sorry get a kick out of this. About Issue 14 from the publisher: This is it, this is the big one: probably the single most important work of football art ever made. The cover feature of issue 14 is an in-depth oral history of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 landmark film, ‘Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait’. Featuring candid interviews with the artists, this is something we've been working up for years. Mind you, the rest of the mag ain't too shabby either. We’ve got Ossian Ward on the art historical beauty of Maradona, Oliver Basciano on Mexican painter Ángel Zárraga, Rosemary Waugh on Danica Lundy’s high school football paintings, Chris Waywell on Eva-Maria Lopez’s photographs of pitch-green living rooms, Emily Steer on Babajide Brian's meticulous player portraits and Scottish artist Craigie Harper on how he came to invent a whole football team. Now, that isbig.
