China World Cup - World Cup fever inspires football art exhibition
TAPE: EF02/0500
IN_TIME: 01:18:19
DURATION: 2:27
SOURCES: APTN
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DATELINE: Beijing, 9 June 2002
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot of exterior of Millennium Monument with contemporary art exhibition title 'Let's Go!' written in English in large letters on banner
2. Visitors entering exhibition
3. Tilt up from feet of silver statue of Chinese soccer player to statue face (entitled 'Chinese football team', by Zhang Feng / Lin Dong / Xu Xianliang, 2002)
4. Wide pan inside main exhibition room exhibition with silver footballer statues
5. Various close-ups of faces of footballer statues
6. Close-up of visitor looking at minuscule soccer player on painting ('2002.5.31', by Zeng Hao, 2002)
7. Wide shot of visitor looking at same painting
8. Wide shot of visitors looking at painting of street and courtyard ('Bursting with laughter', by Song Yonghong, 1992)
9. Group of visitors standing in main hall exhibition room
10. Visitors looking at scroll ('Welcome to World Famous Brand', by the Luo Brothers, 2002)
11. Tilt from bottom of scroll up to painted baby holding World Cup trophy
12. Pan from visitor to naive painting of Chinese family ('Dream of the century', Feng Zhenjie, 2002)
13. Close-up of details of child in painting holding soccer ball
14. Tilt-up from soccer ball in painting to two old men wearing Mao-style suits kicking ball ('Chinese football', Sui Jianguo, 2002)
15. Wide of visitor looking at same painting
16. Close-up of man taking photograph
17. Representation of woman throwing baby into air - pulls out to full view of painting with soccer players tackling in air ('Ah, AH !', Zhong Biao, 2002)
18. Visitors looking at painted ceramic soccer balls in glass case ('Chinese football', by Sun Liang)
19. Close-up of decoration on ceramic ball
20. Wide shot of woman standing by yellow statue (Yue Minjun, 2002)
21. Close-up of face of yellow statue
22. Reverse shot through arm of yellow statue to visitors looking on
23. Painting of woman with monkey on shoulders - tilts down to woman's feet with pig at her heels wearing soccer ball necklace ('Pets become also fans', Li Ji, undated)
24. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Xin Dong Cheng, curator of 'Let's Go' exhibition
"During this time of huge transition for China, a football phenomenon has emerged. The World Cup is just one element of it, but there are a lot of other things hidden within it. Through soccer and this World Cup, you can see a lot of the changes happening in the Chinese society. This is just what I wanted to show by staging this exhibition."
26. Group of three statues with visitors mingling amongst them
STORYLINE:
Success may well be eluding the Chinese national soccer team in its matches in South Korea, but the country's participation in the World Cup finals has spawned a wave of enthusiasm for the game at home.
With China reaching the finals of the world's biggest sporting event for the first time, football fever has reached unprecedented dimensions in the communist state.
The interest has inspired an exhibition of works by contemporary Chinese artists called, 'Let's Go!'.
Some 18 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures and photographs to the show, displaying diverse representations of the soccer theme, ranging from the humourous to the cynical.
The show's curator says the exhibition also reflects the changes taking place in China, and how society's interest in soccer has become part of a wider search for national identity.
Much of the artwork suggests sport is taking the place of political rallies, which only a decade ago were China's main mass participation events.
All work on display will be auctioned after the the exhibition draws to a close on June 20, with proceeds being placed in a fund for the development of soccer in China.