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David Diehl – ICONS: A Directory of Canonisations around the Turn of the Millennium

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Since the late 1990s David Diehl’s work has explored the sociopolitical implications of pop-culture phenomena and their specific para-religious function. ICONS tells the story of a series of over seventy paintings (2013-2020) that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football. Sócrates, Zidane, Andrés Escobar… Each haloed portrait tells a story of its own, but the fate of Diehl’s over-the-top iconographic rendering of – who else! – Diego Maradona takes the cake. After its release from the Zürich studio in which it was created, the ima

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