Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait

Douglas Gordon
Born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland. Lives and works in Berlin.
Douglas Gordon made his major breakthrough with the acclaimed work 24 Hour Psycho (1993) in which Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960) is shown in a slow motion 24-hour long version. Gordon often uses existing material such as cult movies or documentaries and his work often focuses on the concept of memory but also on concepts in oppostion such as innocence and guilt, good and evil. To challenge video as a medium, he employs repetition and shifts in time. Douglas Gordon has won several prestigious awards, including the Turner Prize in the UK (1996), Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale (1997) and the Hugo Boss Award in New York (1998). His most recent exhibition in Stockholm was in 1999, as part of Moderna Museet Projekt.

Philippe Parreno
Born in 1964 in Oran, Algeria. Lives and works in Paris.
In his work, Philippe Parreno focuses on the relationship between reality, depiction and interpretation, while challenging the traditional exhibition as a presentation format. Based on material from public contexts, he adds his own ideas, often in the form of narratives. A characteristic trait of his art is his preference for collaborating with other artists, as in the work No Ghost Just A Shell (2001). Together with Pierre Huygue he bought the rights for the Japanese manga figure AnnLee to save her from inevitable death in the rapidly growing manga animation industry. Philippe Parreno writes for several art magazines and contributes regularly to the Italian publication Domus.