Episode 34 - Raphaël Zarka

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/beyondboardsHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.