28.00 CHF
Language: FR
ISBN: 978-2-490140-35-0
Year of publication: 2023
Publisher: Poursuite – GwinZegal – RVB Books – Images Vevey
Olivier Cablat is an artist who loves football and was a former hopeful for a club in the Marseille area. For his project Le Stade de la Lose, between 2015 and 2017 he went online to buy a multitude of miscellaneous items such as Panini trading cards, mascots, key rings and T-shirts. Each item conceals its own unsettling anecdote related to the history of football. We learn that the airplane-shaped ashtray commemorates the death of almost the entire Torino F.C. team in a crash in 1949, that Bernard Tapie recorded the song “Réussir sa vie” (Succeed in life) on vinyl in 1986, and that a mug stirs up memories of when Eric Cantona shockingly kicked an English fan in 1995.
In its exhibition at the Festival Images 2022 and in his book, the French artist unveils the darker side of such a popular sport.
Olivier Cablat is an artist who loves football and was a former hopeful for a club in the Marseille area. For his project Le Stade de la Lose, between 2015 and 2017 he went online to buy a multitude of miscellaneous items such as Panini trading cards, mascots, key rings and T-shirts. Each item conceals its own unsettling anecdote related to the history of football. We learn that the airplane-shaped ashtray commemorates the death of almost the entire Torino F.C. team in a crash in 1949, that Bernard Tapie recorded the song “Réussir sa vie” (Succeed in life) on vinyl in 1986, and that a mug stirs up memories of when Eric Cantona shockingly kicked an English fan in 1995.
In its exhibition at the Festival Images 2022 and in his book, the French artist unveils the darker side of such a popular sport.
