IIt may be the oldest artistic forms in the world, practiced 5,000 years ago by Otezi Snowman and his European fellow copper ages. But with its most modern associations with red light entertainment and gang crime, modern tattoo has long been avoided by exhibitions that convert the lines into fabric into financial origins.
A new initiative in Berlin admits that the tables have turned. With the prosperity of tattoo studios in the German capital, but many artists who are struggling to gain live, specialize in the Skin Project project in selling works by contemporary, isolated and young artists who cannot be suspended on the wall but to be engraved on the human body.
“The art market and many studios are frozen.” “So we tried to think about how we could open new fields for technical practitioners and thus fix a broken market.”
By WebsiteThe works on Skin sell artwork in limited versions of 100, initially for 100 euros each but up to 2000 euros for the last remaining numbers.
Through their purchase, buyers acquire an artistic printing of artwork and a certificate that gives them one right to obtain a tattoo on their skin, and thus “realize” an artwork until this point is considered “work in forgetfulness”.
Instead of familiar designs such as Swallows, Butterflies, or Samoan Types, customers can raise their skin with a drawing of the old sound system in the Night Corclionally Eva and Adel.
While most of the works can be placed anywhere on the body with any size, others come with specific instructions. The cartoon human flame of the pop artist Jim Avenion should be placed in a way that ensures “the muscles are under the movement of fire”, while the blue point in Lewandonsky must be expanded to the height of humans in the buyer’s world to represent the percentage of size from the sun to Earth, highlighting the “human attack in the world.”
“We are doing something very new and at the same time very old,” said Freibi, a coach economist and a non -fictional author. “Because art on the skin was the beginning of the history of art – before working on stone, wood, fabric or paper.”
With the sale of 150 issues since the business was launched last summer, a new set of designs will be released on April 17.
The initiative is received with a healthy degree of suspicion in the right tattoo world. FATIH Köker established the Berlin -based Tattoo Studio Noia Studio, where he hired many artists taught in prestigious German art academies. Unlike artists who represent works on the skin, those who work in Noya not only create designs, but they can also do tattoos themselves.
“It is funny to see how things change,” Koker said. “We have been ignored by the art world throughout the ages, and now they are trying to play in our game.”
Traditionally, tattoo artists are treated directly by their customers, without the presence of an agency as a decision of their profits. In contrast, the works on the skin take a 50 % reduction, as you get profits every three months. Freibi said: “All of our idea is to provide long -term income flows in the long and sustainable.”
There is also a thorny issue of copyright. Certificates issued by business on Skin Stipated that although, in principle, it is possible to transfer it to another owner when the current human painting dies, there can be a “only valid version only”.
These exclusive concepts seem embarrassingly with agreements what art historian Matt Ludder calls “Magpie”. Ludder, a senior lecturer at the University of Essex and author of the book “Tattoos” has long been copying and adapting artwork. Tattoos: History of Modern Art. “In the nineties of the nineteenth century, for example, what people often want on their bodies are copies of light publications.”
So far, the law was mostly alongside the tattoo. In January 2024, a court in Los Angeles Side In a dispute over whether her tattooing of jazz musicians Miles Davis has violated the copyright of the photographer who was based on his image.
“The thing that violates the copyright in the tattoo is that it is difficult to treat it anyway,” Ludder said. “You can’t force someone to remove the tattoo from his body.”
What if someone will simply get a tattoo based on the photos on Skin on Skin without paying 100 euros or more to get the authenticity certificate? Freibi will be fine with that. “Go ahead,” he said. “But then you will look at honoring a tattoo, not an artwork itself.”
The applicable tattoo should not worry that the studios of artists are about to steal their customers, as Freibi believes. “We respect the tattoo, but we are ultimately working in various fields,” he said. “We sell tattoos by artists who do not usually make tattoos for people who do not habit a tattoo.”
