NA Wave Tour — Galleries and Happenings
A set of images from American hangings, galleries and events: exhibitions, audience, surf culture and artistic presence around the ocean.
Origin markers
ATLAS
A living reserve: publications, books, articles, happenings, exhibitions and galleries that illuminate the origin of the gaze.
ATLAS is not a chronological résumé. It is a reserve of origins: public, printed and collective traces connected to marine culture, surf, galleries and the ocean.
The reading remains selective and curatorial. Dates are used as markers, but the core of the page is a constellation: where the gaze comes from before arriving today at “Ocean painter — Water by water”.
Origins
A constellation of markers
A few dates remain to locate the path, but ATLAS is not an exhaustive chronology: it is a map of origins, circulation and encounters.
- 2001Surfer’s Journal no. 29 — French edition; Festival de la Glisse in Agon-Coutainville; GLISSEXPO 2001, Paris.
- 2004–2005SURF’N BEACH, Netherlands; Les Artistes et la Mer, Saint-Malo; Longboard Magazine, annual Surf Art issue, United States.
- 2007WHO’S NEXT — International Fashion Fair, Paris: art, fashion and happening.
- 2011–2013Dreams & More Longboard, Italy; Blue Magazine, Japan; Parafina Mag, Brazil.
- 2015–2018Beach Brother — Gerry Lopez article; Festival Vagabonde; Tsunami of Sound; Surf Story II; La Vigie.
- 2022–2024US Waves Tour, Surfrider One Ocean Event, galleries, hangings and happenings in North America.
Curatorial selection
Publications, books, happenings, galleries
A deliberately mixed selection: printed matter, articles, fairs, exhibitions and hangings. Each entry works as a sensitive marker rather than a simple archive.
Surf Story II — Gregorio Escalante
An exhibition in the United States around Surf Story II, within the artistic ecosystem brought together by Gregorio Escalante.
Surf Story Project II
An international collective publication devoted to surf culture, artists and their visual narratives.
US Waves Tour — Surfrider One Ocean Event
A charity event around the ocean, environmental commitment and artistic creation.
WHO’S NEXT — International Fashion Fair
A happening beyond the strict surf field: art, image, fashion, audience and event intersect in an international context.
Beach Brother — Annual Mook
Illustrations for the article on Gerry Lopez, four pages, written by Guillaume Dufau.
Blue Magazine — Issue 38
Published in Japan in a magazine devoted to ocean, surf and image cultures.
Parafina Mag
A Brazilian publication, marking an international circulation of the work within surf and ocean culture.
Longboard Magazine — Annual Surf Art Issue
A presence in the annual Surf Art issue, an important American milestone in print.
Dreams & More Longboard — Issue 15
A complete eight-page portfolio published in Italy.
Les Artistes et la Mer
A French marker linking exhibition, sea and coastal visual culture.
La Vigie
A project presented in Biscarrosse within an ocean-culture and exhibition context.
Festival Vagabonde
A presence in a context combining art, cinema, surf and exhibition.
Tsunami of Sound — CD Album Cover
A musical collaboration and graphic archive: surf culture extending into image and sound.
Fashion / Happening
WHO’S NEXT — overview, fashion and hanging
A few views place the 2007 intervention in context: international fair, audience circulation, fashion, booths and exhibited works.
US / North America
NA Wave Tour — galleries and happenings
Images from exhibitions, galleries and encounters in the United States, gathered as one movement: works, audience, surf culture, commitment and installation views.
Reserve
Documentary archive
Documents not retained in the main reading remain preserved in the ATLAS reserve.