graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Continuing the Project with this re-mediation of an image of Luis
Cubilla, who was pictured in both the FKS & Panini World Cup ’74
commemorative albums (the latter providing our original source material from
which the drawing comes to be processed in this instance), & selected as a
member of the Uruguay squad for the tournament, at which he appeared in two of
the Uruguayans’ three matches, the defeats to Holland (during which he was
replaced after 62 minutes) & then Sweden (where Cubilla himself came on as
a 43rd-minute substitute in what proved to be his last international).
Luis Cubilla passed away in March 2013, during which time we were
working on the original ‘pixellated’ format of the 1974 World Cup drawing
project.
By a quirk of the random nature by which each of the subjects have been
selected for a particular drawing (essentially to be analogous to the manner in
which the original stickers were intended to be collected & in practice
would be), the drawing of Luis Cubilla completes the World Cup ’74 portrait
project’s 16-man Uruguay squad, the first to be so even though it was the last
to begin, the first Uruguayan out of the hat not occurring until the 55th selection – by way of comparison, seven Italy players had already been drawn by
that stage.
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