Atlanta Artworks on Display

The World Cup Final was played on July 19. Sixteen matches came to Atlanta this summer, and the city had the chance to discover, over five weeks, what it actually means to host a global tournament. The Beautiful Game, Carousel Fine Art's exhibition built around what soccer means culturally and historically, has ten days remaining.

Four artists approached the sport from entirely different positions. Alexi Torres built his Game of Life series from the geometry of a soccer ball applied to classical sculpture: the Venus de Milo, Rodin's Thinker, a rearing horse drawn from Greek friezes and Baroque painting, using a woven oil technique developed from the agrarian traditions of his Cuban childhood. Eight paintings from the series, each spanning up to 96 by 72 inches, are on view.

David Yarrow was in Mexico City in 1986 when Diego Maradona lifted the World Cup. His photograph from that afternoon is now recognized as one of the three best-selling sports photographs in history, and it is on view here, in Atlanta, during the summer Argentina competed as defending champions.

Max Steven Grossman's Soccer WC 26 is a 48 by 100-inch Diasec-mounted photograph of a bookshelf whose spines resolve, name by name, into the sport's defining players — Pelé, Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé, Eusébio. Contact Carousel Fine Art's advisors before July 31.

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