Highfield Road
by Colin Yates
Digital Print
| 42x30 cm |
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Description
For well over a century, a key landmark in the city of Coventry has been the Highfield Road Football Stadium. 'A city landscape' that reflects the many trials and tribulations of the city. A 'fierce theatre', gone but not forgotten! In 2005, with the imminent demolition of the stadium approaching, I decided to capture the somewhat disheveled football ground for posterity. The artwork combines three images taken during an evening fixture. The work captures the eerie light of the stadium cast against its' precinct like architecture. Highlighting the fury within the stadium to the quiet outside. The contrast is reinforced by the attentiveness of those engrossed by the game, compared to the boredom suffered by the young women serving fast food. (A pork batch?) The security camera and barbed wire are symptoms of past indiscretions. In 2011, I added the tiny mirror image of the 'Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife' to the artwork, for my own amusement and as a nod to the fine arts, which over the past fifteen years has witnessed the rise and credibility of the sporting genre.