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)

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