A series of painting entitled the “Football Players” modifies Nicolas de Staël’s way of painting by relying on the canvas, making him worry about how to represent a present experience which “has trouble” taking shape. This pictorial turning point can be interpreted as the translation of adolescent tension that is trying to stay close to the vital form of experience and which is erased as soon as it takes shape.

Adolescence, 2014, 32, 2, 417-423.