An aberrant history of sports hydration
2010
35.0 x 90.0 cm
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Juan Ford (1973 –)
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Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)
The Ian Potter Museum of Art is a learning museum of the University of Melbourne, situated at the Parkville Campus. Admission is free. The Potter Museum of Art and The University of Melbourne acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. Continue
Anyone who has attended an event at a major sporting stadium in recent years will have encountered an art-historical curiosity: a planar anamorphic projection. These are the distorted corporate logos that are painted onto the playing surface. Stretched along carefully defined mathematical vectors, the warped shapes become
About this artwork
- Title: An aberrant history of sports hydration
- Artist: Juan Ford
- Year: 2010
- Original dimensions: 35.0 x 90.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Ian Potter Museum of Art
- Main color: Putty
- Perceived brightness: brilliant