Skateboard Genesis Calvariae et Gladio (2023) Sculpture by Rom Av.Jc

A board under his feet since he was 14, Romain Hurdequint discovered through skate graphics a passion for art, which he developed while learning painting and pottery at the EMA Fructidor . In 2011, he decided to document all the artistic potential that skateboarding offers in a blog. Twelve years later, The Daily Board is still read by several thousand visitors each month and has established itself as a reference.

In 2018, Romain began writing a collection entitled Skate Art: From the Object to the Artwork, published by Cercle d’Art. This anthology is distributed throughout the world, notably within the prestigious museums of New York, the MoMA and the MET.

Committed to democratizing this new art to the general public, Romain organizes several exhibitions in Lyon , Bordeaux and Ho Chi Minh City, with the support of the French Institute of Vietnam. But if this quality of curator pleases him, he cannot help but project himself to the other side of the brushes.

Thus, Rom BC becomes the artistic alter ego of Romain Hurdequint. Equipped with a jigsaw, a sander, black acrylic or clay, he reinvents representations of ancient leisure activities. Placing skateboarding at the heart of gladiator fights or the first events of the Olympic Games, the artist rewrites the history of this discipline. Accompanied by his companion, editor and textile artist, Romain imagines a past for his character from Rom BC. Shaped in the shape of jars with Greco-Roman motifs, the boards which serve as a medium bear witness to the practice of skateboarding at a time when the city of Lyon bore the name of Lugdunum.

Like the ceramics from the Greco-Roman period, the worn skateboard is marked by its time. If the temporality is far from being the same, the bruises are similar. Broken, hammered, completely reduced to pieces, the boards at the end of their life are like these vases which resurface hundreds of years later: imperfect, but full of history.

Romain Hurdequint aka Rom av.JC was winner of the Paris Urban Art Prize 2022. His work was, in particular, exhibited at the Musée Départemental de la Céramique de Lezoux, as well as at the Condition Publique in Roubaix. His works also travel through charity exhibitions, such as “Urban Explorer” at Knoxville Community Media in Knoxville (USA) and “For Cop’s Sake” at Route One in Glasgow (Scotland).

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1989
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists