Julián Cordero knows that soccer is really about people.
Alongside artist and fellow Quito native Sebastián Valbuena, the New York-based game designer is crafting the world of despelote; a non-competitive soccer game that uses the sport’s human side to paint an intimate portrait of the city of the Ecuadorian capital.
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For Jesse Morsberger, creating paintings of games makes perfect sense; why wouldn't they be the subject matter of choice for a generation of artists shaped by an era of video game ubiquity?
Treating the game in-motion as a subject for interpretive still life, Morsberger’s art gives form to the unseen reality of video games, drawing parallels between the medium and perceptual art.
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