Exercises in Revolution

Also featured in the latest issue (#28) of a brief glance (which you can browse below), "Exercises in Revolution: Free Ride" is the one small place where Minimal Art and skateboarding overlap: "As part of Rome’s contemporary art museum MAXXI’s exhibition “Open Museum Open City” French skater and artist Raphael Zarka participated last October in a three-day performative project called “Exercises In Revolution”. The project, reflecting on the theme of games and rules, featured a wooden replica of Tony Smith’s sculpture “Free Ride” from 1962, a very skateable piece of early Minimal Art that inspired Raphael for his latest book with the same name: Free Ride. Carhartt fully supported Raphael’s projects and invited two of their riders, Sylvain Tognelli and Bram De Cleem, to take part in the event." Video by Alberto Chimenti Dezani. (rnk)