2026 FIFA 월드컵을 맞아 뉴욕 구겐하임뮤지엄에선 6월 11일부터 7월 19일까지 프랑스의 전설적인 축구선수 지네딘 지단(Zinedine Zidane)을 담은 비디오 '지단: 21세기의 초상(Zidane, a 21st century portrait)'을 상영한다. 더글라스 고든과 필립 파레노가 공동으로 연출한 이 비디오는 2005년 4월 마드리드의 산티아고 베르나베우 결기장에서 열린 축구경기 동안 지네딘 지단의 모습을 실시간으로 담아낸 작품이다. 두 감독은 프란시스코 데 고야, 디에고 벨라스케즈, 앤디 워홀에게서 영감을 받았다고 밝히고 있다. 상영시간 90분. 

지단은 1998 프랑스 월드컵 우승, 2000년 유럽축구선수권대회 우승, 2006 독일월드컵 준우승을 이끌었다. 스페인 레알 마드리드의 감독을 마치는 지단은 올 여름 프랑스 대표팀 감독을 떠나는 디디에 데샹의 뒤를 이을 것이라고 ESPN이 보도했다. 

Collection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st century portrait

June 11–July 19, 2026

Guggenheim New York

In its first public presentation at the Guggenheim New York, Zidane, a 21st century portrait is shown on the occasion of the artwork’s twentieth anniversary and the 2026 World Cup hosted in North America, with matches in the New York metropolitan area. The two-channel video projection by Douglas Gordon (b. 1966, Glasgow, Scotland) and Philippe Parreno (b. 1964, Grenoble, France) follows the legendary French soccer star Zinédine Zidane in real time over the course of a single match played on April 23, 2005, at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. Created by the artists and acquired by the Guggenheim in 2006, the ninety-minute piece will be screened on a continuous loop during museum hours in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater.

Assembled from footage shot by seventeen synchronized cameras placed around the stadium, the film captures Zidane from multiple angles and remains fixed on him even when the central action of the match shifts elsewhere. By splicing in footage from the live television broadcast, Gordon and Parreno challenge viewers’ perception of spectacle and modern celebrity.

This video installation—one of seventeen unique versions of the work—introduces a further layer to the viewing experience. While one large projection displays the theatrical version of Gordon and Parreno’s film, raw footage from one of the seventeen cameras plays beside it on a second screen. At moments, the two streams synchronize and show the same image. This doubling, a recurrent feature in Gordon’s work, echoes the mass dissemination of the contemporary celebrity-hero and the role of collective memory in shaping iconic images from popular culture.

Connecting back to the history of portraiture, Gordon and Parreno reference artists such as Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez, as well as the more immediate precursor of Andy Warhol’s real-time film portraits.

Zidane, a 21st century portrait marks the sixth installment in the museum’s ongoing Collection in Focus series, which takes an in-depth look at an artist, movement, or artwork. The series aims to make the museum’s world-renowned holdings more accessible to the public while providing new insights into significant works, artists, and artistic movements.

The exhibition is organized by Nat Trotman, Curator, Performance and Media.

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