31 October 2020
Welcome to the most immense work of art you have ever seen.
A 123-year-old masterpiece, a painting that speaks of the most beautiful dream you can ever imagine.
And not even the boys of the Liceo D'Azeglio in Turin could have imaged just how big their dream would become.
Youth. Juventus.
It was the first of November, more than a century ago, in a Turin so similar, but so far from today, when the Crocetta district became the seat of the first, ideal, art gallery for the pioneers of the greatest painting in Italian football history.
It’s now a painting whose canvas has become as large as a playground, year after year, championship after championship, from Turin to Italy, and then from Italy to Europe and to the world…
A story of masterpieces: Happy birthday Juve!
Brushstrokes, never before seen, were painted by painters with superfine and different qualities on Juventus’ canvas of artworks: sketches of pure talent, powerful lines, sinuous curves or decisive strokes. Everything is there, and remains there, forever: the great painting called Juventus is something that can be admired, experienced together, and renewed day after day, week after week.
The D’Azeglio boys’ dream became true, and without a doubt, has gone further than their wildest imagination.
Their youth has become that of millions of football art lovers all over the world: the frames, the times, the houses in which this painting has been hung have changed and been renewed, but today, as then, it centers around two concepts.
The work of art and the dream.
When the canvas is a football field, the brushstrokes follow paths that are difficult to describe or predict. When what you could only imagine becomes a single, large, work of art, you can't help but admire it. You can't help but be amazed at what an infinite range of joy, passion, enthusiasm and strength there is in those two simple colours.
Black and white.
And to realise, with glistening eyes, how incredible it is that that painting is as beautiful today as it was 123 years ago on 1 November. And we are sure it will be tomorrow too.
Happy birthday, the work of art of our life.
Happy birthday, Juventus!
