Inking Board is the name of the series of exhibitions where the skateboard goes under the dermograph. Inking the wood of the skateboard as you would do it on the skin’ is the only instruction given to the tattoo artists.
The beginning: Inking Board 001
At the beginning of January 2019, 17 tattoo artists were each given the mission to create a work from 2 skateboards. The exhibition highlighted all the creativity and graphic richness of the tattoo world. From irezumi, to traditional, to naive and engraving, the styles and renderings were as varied as they were fascinating. The tattoo artists had 4 months to create their works. In fact, most of them spent more than 30 hours perfecting their boards.
Especially since the wood support was a challenge for some. Indeed, wood absorbs a lot of paint. Everyone had to find the right solution to get a clean look.
To better immerse everyone in the world of each artist, Paul Daubié photographed the tattoo artists and their salons. Taken on film, he took care of the printing himself.
Inking Board 001 took place at Sitio by Superposition, the Street Art gallery in the 1st district of Lyon. On the program, the following artist-tattooers participated in this first edition: Strange Dust, Carlos Olmo, Grom, Carlito, Gaguthhe, Noka, Kid Nowe, Quentin Aldhui, Krap/Crap, Side, Marc Bonz, Laurent Claveau, Pandido, Mathias Bugo and Carlito, Gladys to Meet You, Pas de Veine.
The Resonance: Inking Board 001
In July 2019, a resonance of this exhibition took place in the city of Wonders: Bordeaux. Indeed, the eco-neighborhood Darwin hosted the event for 1 month in one of these large refurbished hangars. For Inking Board 002, in addition to the artists already presented, 3 new ones were added. We invited Mamie Bousille, Subson’Ink and Romain Perdrizet to create a work of art each.
What’s next?
This series of exhibitions is the initiation of Romain Hurdequint, the creator of The Daily Board, Paul Daubié and Chloé Chandioux. It’s hard to say more for the moment, but the series will continue and may grow!
From graffiti to tattoo, to illustration, the artist Krap/Crap is someone very versatile! Graphic designer by training, he starts very quickly as an independent illustrator. In 2014, he went to London to do some graffiti and then returned to France…
Arrived in 2000 at Artribal Tatouages, Grom Tattooer opened his own tattoo parlor in Lyon in 2015. At the beginning of the year, during the INKING BOARD exhibition series, he created a diptych of boards. The artist-tattoo artist painted a…
Tattoo artist Carlito Tattoo created this skate diptych as part of the INKING BOARD exhibition series. The concept was to paint on both boards, an illustration that works when boards are closed. Carlito chose to make this tiger from Korean…
Noka, tattoo artist of the Blossom Tattoo Collective show in Lyon has created this diptych of skate as part of INKING BOARD. Soberly entitled ‘Daruma’, these two boards illustrate a Japanese lucky figurine. Represented without leg or arm, the Daruma…
We’re back! After a 1st edition in Lyon in January 2019, we renew the experience in a new place! First and foremost, to make an encrypted return of INKING BOARD 001, it was: 500 visitors including nearly 300 at the…
The tattoo-artist Pandido, also owner of Peoples Temple Tattooing, painted on two boards for the Skate Station 002 • INKING BOARD. Passionate about the pre-Columbian art and Aztec culture, he put his art on boards to create from scratch this…
From Peoples Temple Tattooing, artist-tattoo artist SIDE has created a diptych of skateboards, presented and sold at the Skate Station 002 • INKING BOARD. Using acrylic paint, he first realized this skeleton completely crazy about detail and realism. Once done,…
The illustrator and tattooist Strange Dust has very well adapted the support of skateboarding and realized two very dark animals, quite in agreement with his universe, on the occasion of the exhibition Skate Station 002 • INKING BOARD in Lyon…
At the beginning of 2018, Keflione de ROYALCLUB and I talked a lot about how to fix your skateboards on the wall. The simple technique of the rope, as archaic as unsightly to existing fastening systems. There was nothing we…
The tattoo artist Gaguthhe created this superb diptych of boards on the occasion of Skate Station 002 • INKING BOARD which took place in January 2019 in Lyon. She worked on those skateboards as a stained glass, representing a scene…
