ART / SPORT / CULTUREAN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATIONEST. 2026   /   SEASON 01
BENI HASAN
FOOTBALL / ART / ARCHITECTURE

Real Madrid.

A stadium, a mural, a rose. Three scales of a sporting institution’s visual world.

How does a sporting identity inhabit a surface?

Jude Bellingham modelling Real Madrid’s purple Y-3 rose-motif matchwear in the 2024 campaign.
Real Madrid × Y-3, 2024 matchwear campaign. Photo: Real Madrid. Design: Y-3 / Yohji Yamamoto and adidas. Image source ↗
THE EDITORIAL ROUTE

Real Madrid can be approached through the surfaces that surround and represent it. The Bernabéu’s repeated steel slats make the building legible at the scale of the city. Spok Brillor’s mural concerns a closer encounter along an interior route. Y-3’s rose motif puts a designer’s visual vocabulary onto a sporting garment. Together they form a route from architecture to wall painting to clothing. We document the named makers and dated projects, then use project photographs and original analysis to examine scale, movement and composition. The guide is independent of the club: primary-source statements are identified as such, and our interpretations are presented as readings rather than as the artists’ declared intentions.

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BACKGROUND GUIDES

Art & design records

PRIMARY SOURCES / DATED PROJECTS

PROJECT DATES ARE HISTORICAL. RECORDS CHECKED 4 OCTOBER 2026. CURRENT AVAILABILITY IS NOT IMPLIED.

The makers

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