Show notes
Episode 34 with Raphaël Zarka, skateboarder, writer, sculptor and all-around visual artist from France. Together we discussed him discovering skateboarding in the South of France where he grew up, studying art in Winchester and Paris and becoming a visual artist, his various books focused on skateboarding from historical, archaeological, physics and artistic points of view to name a few (all available at Editions B42), the collaboration process between an artist and a gallery and him recently joining Galerie Mitterrand in Paris, creating skateable sculptures for a project called « Paving Space » in collaboration with Isle and Carharrt (documented by Dan Magee) in 2016, his upcoming projects… Intro (00:13) Discovering skateboarding (01:26) Developing an interest for art (08:04) Studying art (12:31) Skateboarding while studying? (21:38) Links between skateboarding and Raphaël’s art (27:28) Books: the forbidden conjunction (31:26) A Chronicle of Skateboarding (34:38) Freeride (41:11) Cycloid ramp (48:00) Working with galleries (58:42) Paving space project for Isle and Carharrt (01:02:00) New project with Nozbone (01:08:42) Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (01:11:47) Friends questions (01:12:40) Conclusion (01:40:52) For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards
