World renowned artist Damien
Hirst has teamed up with exclusive new york based skate label 'supreme' to create a extremely limited collection of skateboard decks.
Supreme are well known for producing limited numbers of t shirts and other clothing items that people pay huge amounts of money for to add to a collection they will never wear and this latest project is no different, they are releasing 3 skateboard decks designed by Damien
Hirst who is best known for his part in the sensations exhibition and putting animals in boxes as art, the boards he has designed are extremely colourful and
psychedelic and look great but what i find strange about his approach to the skateboards is that while the underneath of
your average skateboard is a
carefully designed image and logo that will be part of a series for that particular company
with nothing on top other than maybe a small logo as it will be covered by
grip tape to skate it, but
hirst has flipped this on its head while his designs are quite striking, they do just look as though he's thrown some paint around and see what came out of it but the tops of the
skateboards on the
other hand seem to have more thought put into them, each board has a individual piece of design on top and this part that would be covered up seems to be the most unique and therefore part of the board you would want to show of.
Either way i
don't think it really matters where he writes his name because i very much doubt the lucky people to get there hands on one of these boards are
going to skate them
because now
just because his name is on it it would be like
taking a painting out of a gallery and smashing it to pieces, and this just goes to show how much difference a name can make when added to a piece of work no matter what it looks like.
Supreme are well known for producing limited numbers of t shirts and other clothing items that people pay huge amounts of money for to add to a collection they will never wear and this latest project is no different, they are releasing 3 skateboard decks designed by Damien Hirst who is best known for his part in the sensations exhibition and putting animals in boxes as art, the boards he has designed are extremely colourful and psychedelic and look great but what i find strange about his approach to the skateboards is that while the underneath of your average skateboard is a carefully designed image and logo that will be part of a series for that particular company with nothing on top other than maybe a small logo as it will be covered by grip tape to skate it, but hirst has flipped this on its head while his designs are quite striking, they do just look as though he's thrown some paint around and see what came out of it but the tops of the skateboards on the other hand seem to have more thought put into them, each board has a individual piece of design on top and this part that would be covered up seems to be the most unique and therefore part of the board you would want to show of.
Either way i don't think it really matters where he writes his name because i very much doubt the lucky people to get there hands on one of these boards are going to skate them because now just because his name is on it it would be like taking a painting out of a gallery and smashing it to pieces, and this just goes to show how much difference a name can make when added to a piece of work no matter what it looks like.
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