Combining sculpture and performative interventions, Nøne Futbol Membership—generally known as Nonefutbolclub—expresses conceptual messages by way of ephemeral objects and time-based actions. The identify is the alias of Colas Claisse, who co-founded the undertaking as a collective however now works solo beneath the moniker. The initiative continues to delve into potent dichotomies like tragedy and humor, vulnerability and safety, disruption and calm, and politics and fiction.
“Nøne Futbol Club’s work may sometimes make you smile, but it can also be serious,” says a press release. “It highlights the violence inherent in our world, where speed and productivity are seen as all-powerful.” The artist describes the undertaking’s position as one which “takes hold of our immediate environment,” expressing social divides and analyzing socio-political points with a spark of wry humor.
An ongoing sequence of sculptures assume the type of tires normal from picket rings. Scorched with hearth, the sequence Wheeling and dealing contains multimedia works all titled “Work nº144: Hot Wheels.” The items seem within the guise of Cooper or Pirelli racing tires, but upon nearer inspection, they reveal their shocking composition. Layered meanings emerge by way of the flames, which initially create, and in some circumstances destroy, the works.
Every life-size picket object is created from sliced tree trunks which have been carbonized, producing the wealthy, black texture and sides redolent of treads. “Since a tree does not grow from its core but from the periphery of its trunk, the cracks resulting from combustion are created concentrically,” the artist says, describing how the ensuing patterns mimic model new, rubber care tires.
A double entendre within the sense that the sculptures check with the American toy model of the identical identify and the literal temperature of the items as they burn, the artist performs with notion by creating a fabric that pretends to be one other.
Nøne Futbol Membership continues to revel on this refined deception, trapping the spectator within the simulacrum: “Subjected to form but destroying function, Hot Wheels introduces the silent unease of a double game: real tire or wood? Voluntary combustion or fatal car accident?”
The Wheeling and dealing sequence additionally spawns drawings created from charcoal chipped off of the sculptures when dealt with. Video works, such because the half-hour piece included under, chronicle the tires’ destruction in atmospheric landscapes. Bespoke molds forged tire shapes in plaster, aluminum, and—coming full circle—rubber. And later items incorporate puddles of metallic beneath the tires, symbolizing overheating as the edges soften and function a show pedestal. Actually and figuratively a loop, the items outline the cyclical nature of a lot of Nøne Futbol Membership’s apply.
The artist describes his strategy as a “systematic hijacking or reversal of the system,” tapping into the highly effective symbolism of objects which can be burned or smashed amidst revolt. “Faced with a sense of powerlessness, car vandals and rioters seek an accessible way to convey a radical message,” he says. “As the embodiment of a comfortable and cushioned system, the car is a perfect target.”
Nøne Futbol Membership is slated to indicate work at Iconoscope Gallery in Could in Montpellier and at MacBar in September in Lyon. Discover extra on his web site and Instagram.
