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(Irina Ionesco) is a photograph taken in 1996. A guy with sunglasses and a goatee, accompanied by two other soldiers from the Japanese underworld, crosses his arms, his penis is soaking.
The image attracts by the message sent by the uniform ink that cannot be removed
. The waterproof bathrobe close to the skin: tattoos screen print the body drawing the robe of tough men. The mafiosi meats in mate took root in the collective imagination of the society anchored to the metropolis of Tokyo during the years that followed the end of the Second World War.
"The tattoo would be systematically associated with organized crime"
, analyzes Pascal Bagot in the catalog of
Tattoo, art under the skin
, "The largest exhibition on the history of tattoos" that can be visited at the city's CaixaForum until April 17.
Although the association between the mafia and tattoos in Japan continues to function with the same symptoms of trauma, in the 70s it began to heal with the exchange between artists of what were the trenches of the Pacific.
The master Gifu Horihide and the American Sailor Jarry began a relationship
"that would change the degree of knowledge about Japanese tattooing"
and would end, almost three decades later, by solving some prejudices.
Transit is the leitmotif of the exhibition.
Visitors to the exhibition stopped yesterday around the photograph as if they were hypnotized by the glare of the lights of the Gran Vía: the fascination with ink also acts through the crowds.
According to the curators of the exhibition, a collaboration between the "la Caixa" Foundation and the Musee du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, it is estimated that 12% of Europeans have a tattoo.
In Spain, the figure ranges between 15 and 20% of the population.
Look at those beaches.
Notice the ankles in the air.
Look at the gym buddy's forearms.
Take a look at the lupita of Instagram.
"It is the 'boom' of the tattoo"
Tattoo makes the anthropological journey from Ötzi, the mummy that appeared on the ice with a marked body. "The oldest truthful evidence of tattooing". 2,000 years later, "some of the 200 Celtic peoples then settled in much of Western Europe also had marks." Even the heart painted on the
influencer's
finger
. First it was the tribal conception, later the marginal one,
"exploring the confluences that have made the tattoo a form of world artistic expression
.
"
The revolution that followed is at its peak today. "It's the tattoo boom", points out Elisa Durán Montolío, the deputy general director of the "la Caixa" Foundation.
"The tour, with five different stops, starts from a global perspective to understand the link between tattoos and crime and its spectacularization," explains the museum.
The tattoo "is an art in movement
" that begins to spread throughout Japan, North America and Europe.
«
Tattoo
transports us to the origins, from a symbolic and anthropological perspective.
It highlights the work of today's artists, shows the emergence of syncretic styles and exchanges between continents.
It is a cosmopolitan exhibition, which brings together materials from all over the world ”, describes Durán.
«The work system is very attractive, since it is based on the study of the important collections of the museum, on the contributions of other museums and collectors and on the application of the ethnographic method: talking with tattoo artists and tattooed, knowing what they think and what make".
From the trip through the slipping puncture there are some spaces that magnetize, especially "the rebirth of the traditional tattoo in
New Zealand, Samoa, Polynesia, Indonesia or Thailand."
Or the 22 "prototypes that hyperrealistically reproduce parts of the human body." Molded from an "experimental material", they serve as a structure for artists who hang their designs in display cases. The silicone legs are canvases for "tattoo masters: what was originally an ephemeral inscription on the epidermis of a certain person can be preserved, studied, and valued" as an appendix to treatises on Art History. «In London, Sutherland MacDonald, known as' the Michelangelo of the tattoo, had already had the words' tattoo artist 'printed on his business card in 1891. Later, the tattoo is incorporated into the history of art.
The Swiss tattoo artist Felix Leu rejects any distinction between academic and popular.
The canned bodies allow, for example, the Madrid-based tattoo artist Laura Juan to reflect
"on social isolation during the pandemic"
, with a production halfway between graffiti and the mural embodied in a thigh of
props
.
Whoever does not want to get a tattoo can be convinced of the possibility of owning the fish tank in which a torso with a demon drawn on the back is enclosed
.
Among the rest of the catalog on display, the fake meat pieces vibrate as if they were hanging from the hook on the roof of a refrigerator truck.
"The work of Jee Sayalero, a Venezuelan artist, makes allusions to Japanese folklore and works by artists such as Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dalí."
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