IL LINGUAGGIO DEI TATUAGGI

There is an intimate and itinerant art that has preferred bodies and streets to the dusty rooms of a museum: it is the art of tattooing, an ancient form of expression that in recent decades has shown extraordinary vitality and dizzying syncretism, capable of capturing, reworking and juxtaposing styles and symbologies born in distant epochs and places. Thanks to tattoos, a lotus can bloom next to a swallow or a carp, a nautical anchor can accompany a sacred heart, and a majestic deer can look out from the same patch of skin on which a geisha dances wrapped in her kimono. Through the works of the famous Megamunden (Oliver Munden) and the texts of the critic Nick Schonberger, the volume is aimed at those who want to know more about the symbolism of tattoos, those looking for inspiration for the next tattoo, and all lovers of an art that has its roots in time but has never been so contemporary.