graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
The latest subject to be featured in the drawing project
represents Joachim Fritsche, or rather the sticker of the player as he appeared
in the FKS-published ‘Wonderful World of Soccer Stars World Cup 1974’ collectors’
album.
The particularly high-contrast, washed-out aspect of the photocopy of
the original sticker that provides the immediate point of visual reference from
which the drawing is processed aids the ‘ghostly’ appearance of the image,
appropriate to the previously-unknown nature of the subject, which, although
Fritsche was selected as a member of the East Germany squad for the 1974 World
Cup, is hardly unsurprising as he subsequently played no part in any of his
country’s matches in the tournament.
In the interests of a little ‘Ostalgie’, some light
Wikipedia research into Joachim Fritsche has unearthed a delightful photograph of our hero
in domestic football action, seen here on the left of the image, for Lokomotive
Leipzig against Dynamo Dresden, those two romantic East German names of
European club competitions of yore.
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