Oof #14

Oof is a magazine about art and football (or because we're in Canada, soccer). The artists featured peel back the layers of meaning in this obsessive sport, and help us make sense of something bigger and more ungraspable in the process.

In this issue: 

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 is big.

London, UK; 160 x 240mm; 78 pages; Biannual; 2024