Interview – The artist, half of the duo Madame Monsieur, publishes this Friday “I was there”, a collection of testimonies of people who lived in the stadiums, famous tricolor football matches. Moving, vibrant stories, sometimes marked by the tragedy
AS Saint -Etienne – Bayern of Munich in the final of the European Champion Clubs Cup in 1976. The 1993 Champions League won by OM against AC Milan. France – Brazil at the 1998 World Cup where the Blues won their first star. The Barcelona raising in front of the Parisian in the round of 16 of the 2017 Champions League… The most striking pages in the history of French football are all (or almost, the epic of the 1958 World Cup does not appear) in) in I was therethe book that Jean-Karl Lucas publishes this Friday by editions En Exergue. The artist, who forms with his wife Emilie Satt the duo Madame Monsieur, is a big round ball fan. “I have always loved football and, more generally, the history of football, the stories linked to football, in particular life stories,” he said 20 Minutes.
As the title of his work makes it understand, he collected the testimonies of men and women who lived these matches within the stadiums. “It all started with a personal desire to share memories of mythical encounters, before which I vibrated, or of which we, my father in particular, told me a lot when I was a kid. In a way, I wanted to relive these matches by proxy, “explains Jean-Karl Lucas for whom” a great football match is a moment of history “.
-For the 1998 World – Brazil – Brazil match, you haven’t crubbed out under the testimonies?
No, it was not so easy to find, in fact. The tee (…)
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