MCC Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • art fairs
  • About us
  • Contact
  • FR
  • EN
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Send an email
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Send an email
Menu
  • FR
  • EN
  • Current
  • Past

VISITE: Amine El Gotaibi

Past exhibition
April 1, 2021 - October 1, 2022
  • Works
  • Installation Views
  • Press release
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Amine El Gotaibi, Caisse de pommes (Crate of apples), 2016

Amine El Gotaibi Marocain, b. 1983

Caisse de pommes (Crate of apples), 2016
Ink and intervention on paper
152 x 114 cm
Copyright The Artist
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EAmine%20El%20Gotaibi%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3ECaisse%20de%20pommes%20%28Crate%20of%20apples%29%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2016%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EInk%20and%20intervention%20on%20paper%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E152%20x%20114%20cm%3C/div%3E
View on a wall
Similar to the fruit of original sin, the soccer ball is turning into a weapon of mass destruction, which the artist expresses it as a ball with sharpened nails rolling...
Read more
Similar to the fruit of original sin, the soccer ball is turning into a weapon of mass destruction, which the artist expresses it as a ball with sharpened nails rolling on the surface of the world map. Today, it now seems that soccer is becoming a contemporary and improvised religion, a real unifying tool. This project was born out of Amine El Gotaibi’s incomprehension of the world’s devotion to soccer and its in influence on the masses. Using an interdisciplinary approach, New religion aims to redefine the concept of religious precepts that have united the masses over the years.

Today, it now seems that soccer is becoming a contemporary and improvised religion, a real unifying tool. This project was born out of Amine El Gotaibi’s incomprehension of the world’s devotion to soccer and its influence on the masses. Using an interdisciplinary approach, New religion aims to redefinne the concept of religious precepts that have united the masses over the years.

Concerned about the potentially worrisome e ects of this sport, El Gotaibi questions the irrational adoration it inspires, attempting to identify the void that exists in societies in which football is practiced as devoutly as any faith. Telephage, time-consuming and phagocyte of the mind, "soccer games have been able to create communion and synergy between people where religions have failed."

Close full details

Exhibitions

Amine El Gotaibi, VISITE, solo exhibition
Until July 2022

Publications

Amine El Gotaibi, artist monograph, MCC GALLERY, 2021
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
36 
of  41

Related artist

  • Amine El Gotaibi

    Amine El Gotaibi

Back to Past exhibitions

281, Rue Principale, Sidi Ghanem

Marrakech 40000

 

 

info@mcc-gallery.com

+212 08 08 59 59 99

 

Opening hours

Monday - Saturday

10 AM - 6 PM.   

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Send an email
View on Google Maps
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 MCC Gallery
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences