Caroline Coon and the art of painting sport

The British Magazine OOF will organize the first stage of the exhibition cycle of 'Caroline Coon: In the Arena', an exhibition by the British artist Caroline Coon, in the J Hammond Projects art gallery in London. The canvases - exhibited from 7 November to 21 December - will be works dedicated to sports, with a particular focus on football. The sports series is a selection of paintings made between 1989 and 2020 that Coon has made during the other interests that have occupied his life.

The paintings are characterized by Coon's destructive, fiery and powerful art, which in addition to her career as a journalist and artist has always been a great fan of Queen's Park Rangers, since the 1960s. Football, in fact, is at the center of the exhibition among other sports disciplines reproduced: in fact, the physical sense, the struggle, the overlap and the forms of the bodies that populate the world of sport are portrayed - in addition to the ball, among others, in the canvases are also painted athletics, water polo, free wrestling and basketball. Precisely because of the deep sporting essence of the exhibition, the exhibition was curated and organized by OOF Magazine, a London magazine that treats football in its artistic variation.