Riding Modern Art - Raphaël Zarka

For about ten years, Raphaël Zarka has been collecting photographs of skaters on public works of art published in magazines or on websites dedicated to skateboarding. This is a reflection on sculpture within the framework of a more general questioning of the notion of public space and the "spatial practices" of residents, close to the reflections of Michel de Certeau.
"Passers-by, art critics, history, judge works of art on aesthetic and conceptual criteria (it's beautiful or it's interesting). The criteria of skaters are above all mechanical: the interest of a sculpture lies in the variety of movements that it suggests. More irreverent than vandal, this practice of the work of art underlines the explicit dynamism of a whole section of modern sculpture. On sculptures that are most often abstract and geometric, of cubo-futurist or constructivist inspiration, skaters make effective the idea of ​​movement literally implemented by the artists." Raphaël Zarka
Some images are missing from this collection, as the sculptors refused to have their works reproduced. The spaces dedicated to the corresponding images have been deliberately left vacant.