By Chris Wright
“Bosh!”
The moment that, during the 2006 World Cup Final, Zinedine Zidane sensed a final, glorious swansong and bowed out of the game with a celestially graceful headbutt to Marco Materazzi’s sternum has been immortalised in bronze as part of an exhibition entitled ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’ by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed – which is due to go on show in the David Zwirner Gallery in New York shortly…
Which is nice ‘n’ all, but we at Pies can’t help but think a life-size casting of this haunting image would’ve made for an altogether more dynamic piece of work…
Look at all that lovely negative space.
Image: MARCA