The Football Hunters is an indian art project and a film documentary of the italian artist, film maker and “Football Hunter� Paolo W. Tamburella.
P.W. Tamburella and three misterious Indian Football Hunters travelled across India hunting old, punctured and consumed footballs.
In a country more and more devoted to cricket finding footballs wasn`t an easy task.
A surreal search for hidden footballs became a way to explore India and to portrait many different aspects of the biggest democracy in the world..
Old footballs served as containers for a variety of stories and as keys to enter indian everyday life.
Filmed between flooded football fields, grounds used to breed cows and goats, to host military parades or “infamous� cricket games The Football Hunters is a pilgrimage through India that now terminates , after 30 days and more then 4.400km, in Kolkata “The indian capital of Football�.
Paolo W. Tamburella and The Football Hunters invite Kolkata`s people to show their love and passion for football and to bring as many old, punctured and damaged footballs as they can to The Footballs Collection Center in Mominpore, Kolkata. We kindly ask the Indian media to help us inform Kolkata people about this event.
The collected footballs will be used to create an exceptional art work “ The Football Land� a borderless map made out of footballs from all over India, symbol of life and of collectivity. The Football Land will be stitched in Kolkata and will be hand transported around Mominpore starting from Mominpore Youth Federation Club on Tuesday 12th December 2006 at 3 pm.
PROFILE OF PAOLO W. TAMBURELLA
Born in Rome 1973
Lives between Rome and New York
Selected projects
2006-2007 The Football Land, Kanyakumari to Kolkata, India
performance
Us mail project multimedia project
2427 Piety St New Orleans Usa
2006: Monte Basura Union Square to Federal Plaza, New York, performance
2005: The Totti Project Trivandrum, India, performance ; Shell Fortino S. Antonio, Bari
2004: Deferom Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York performance
2003: Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
2002: Galleria Borghese, Roma
2001: New Work Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Selected group-shows
2006: 3500cm2 curated Lorenzo Benedetti, American Academy in Rome, Roma; Assab One, Milano
Selected projects
2005: Angelo, Mai! Curated by Francesco Stocchi, Ex-Chiesa San Romano, Roma; Escatologica curated by Simona Cresci, Esc, Roma; 3500cm2 curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Blueroom, Rome
2004: Black Annina Nosei Gallery, New York ; Quinta Galeria Bogota`, Colombia
2003 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York; A Mario Merz, Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna
2002: VideoROM curated by Cristiana Perrella, Macro, Museo d`arte contemporanea di Roma, Roma; Gamec, Galleria d`arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo; Galleria Giancarla Zanutti, Milano
2001: Festa dell`Arte curated by Valentina Bruschi, Acquario Romano, Roma; Y.I.A. Rialto S. Ambrogio, Roma
FILMOGRAPHY
2006-2007: The football hunters digital video 50’’ India
2005: ONE DAY WITH BUSH 12� digital video Usa
2001: Megaptere 12� digital video Italy
LECTURES
2006: Sialkot University of Missoury-Columbia, Columbia, Usa
2005: Cornell University in Rome, Roma; When attitudes become form (to Harald Szeeman) Istituto Superiore di Fotografia, Rome
