In the context of Verso and the Nitto ATP Finals Cultural Program, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents \"J.K. Ping-Pong Club\", a project that brings together three performance installations and a selection of historical photographs by Slovakian artist J\u00falius Koller.<\/p>\n
In March 1970, J\u00falius Koller used the invitation for a solo show in the Bratislava based Gal\u00e9ria mlad\u00fdch (Gallery of the Youth) to transform the exhibition space into a sports club. The environment of one ping-pong table, a series of sports flags, and a written announcement \u2014to play the game barefoot \u2014 invited the visitors to play table tennis. J.K. Ping-Pong Club dissolves the boundaries between art and non-artistic activities. It creates an active environment both metaphorically and literally. Rather than joining the individual and the visual, J.K. Ping-Pong Club aims for the collective and the spiritual. Furthermore, with its declaration about fair play rules, it is a clear political statement, at the time against conservative communist consolidation after the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968. By playing a game and respecting or disrespecting its rules, the visitors who participate in an activity may open up an artistic and political space for action.<\/p>\n
Audiences are invited throughout the project to play, making sport a field through which to look at politics and mediation exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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