Carhartt WIP On A Day With No Waves by Raphaël Zarka (Multicolor)

On A Day With No Waves is a chronicle of skateboarding 1779-2009 that features the words of Raphaël Zarka. Paperback edition, 130 x 008 mm; 160 pages, English.

Raphaël Zarka is into skateboarding and art – especially skateable art…

For an artist like Raphaël Zarka, skateboarding is above all a question of forms. Forms of rest, forms of movement, they subtly extend throughout the entire history of art and science, from Galileo to Robert Morris. Urban architecture, but also skatepark obstacles, strangely echoes those forms. Zarka’s essays participate in a kind of fantastic archaeology; in their way, they expand his sculptural and photographic practice.

Raphaël Zarka collects sculptural forms and focuses on their different possibilities. Let him explain his view on sculptures and skateboarding in his own words: "What strikes me, is that skaters prioritize a relationship with the work rather than a mechanical relationship aesthetic. for them, all the interest of a sculpture is the variety of movements that it recommends."