Host Gallery 1 Honduras Street EC1Y 0TH London Royaume-Uni
HOST Gallery are extremely happy to announce that on Friday the 23rd October Hans van der Meer will be giving a talk about his body of work European Fields in the gallery, to reserve your place please email rsvp stating its for the event on the 23rd to rsvp@hostgallery.co.uk, Tickets are £8 or £5 for Foto8 Members
Date: Friday 23rd October
Timing: 6:30 Drinks, 7:00pm Start
Hans Van Der Meer started photographing lower league football across Europe in 1995 He went out looking for football in its original form; as it had started more than hundred years ago a patch of land, 22 players, no spectators, maybe a horse in the next meadow.
These acute and subtle observations of the poetry and absurdity of human behaviour connect the game of football to the basic futility of the human condition. The small tragicomedies are dwarfed by the serenity and permanence of the natural or man-made world that surrounds them but in their pathos can be found the original passion and humanity of the game.