coloured pencil & putty eraser/20x30cm
Returning to the football after the recent break for tea(pots), & presenting the third in the putative series of drawings of impressively-extravagantly-moustachioed footballers plying their trade in the French League circa 1976, sourced from images of original stickers available at the delightful ‘Old School Panini’ website.
As with the previous example, the drawing was processed using a variety of found coloured pencils & also some from a newly-acquired ‘proper’ set, with an A4 colour print of the image as saved from ‘OSP’ & scaled-up – experiencing certain losses of pictorial fidelity in translation from screen to page(s) along the way - serving as the immediate physical reference: again, various levels of representation, of re-mediation, from the original printed sticker, as object, to the drawing, are involved, influencing & informing the appearance of the latter, not least in terms of (artificiality of) colour.
The portrait subject of the drawing, a rather debonair Monsieur Raymond Domenech as he appeared during his playing career, might be said to be more famous, or notorious, now for his ’managerial’ role nominally in charge of the mutinous 2010 World Cup French squad, a trait made topical again by certain recidivist tendencies as revealed within the recent 2012 European Championship, as France once again seemed to implode as the tournament progressed.
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