N the exhibition, the third Tattoo Convention illustrates an aesthetic trend that meets eccentric and general public.In the aisles of the exhibition center, the sound of hard rock rivals the needles in action. Saturday at the tattoo parlor, visitors do not just watch. Many have rolled up their sleeves and raised their shirt to take home a souvenir of the epidermis.
Roman, 27, waits his turn watching his girlfriend Stessy, 23, will engrave a pattern on the wrist. "This is her second tattoo She already has a big in the back, in the form of arabesque." Reveals the chef Nîmes, while the young woman, fitness instructor, remains stoic, lying on the table: "It no worse that a hair removal session! "says the pretty brunette. For Roman, it will be a Polynesian design on the right hip, the same as he has already left.
Great consumptionOver the stands, one thing is clear: the tattoo has become a fancy consumer. Certainly, bikers and other assertive looks are always with go but the student staunch and wise mother now account for a large part of the clientele. The origin of the exhibitors, either, not mistaken. Sommieres, Calvisson, Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres: the studios are implanted increasingly in small towns. Just as the baker or pharmacist in every village a tattoo artist.
Ben opened his, Dagob'Art at Milhaud, there is a year and a half. His specialty: "Realism in color comics." His audience: the inhabitants of the region but also tattoo fans from much further, like those Swiss who regularly return to complete it their body figure. "In a show like this, there are also many regulars who come to see what is done again as non-tattooed who cross the no easier here."
Matt Gone, the most tattooed man in the world
Take the plunge: it is no longer the problem Matt Gone, distinguished by the Guinness Book of Records as one of the most tattooed man in the world. 98% of his body, including head and face are covered with drawings, most checkered, made by 80 different artists for nearly twenty years. This American 45-year-old from Oregon, is this weekend in Nimes for the show during this Tattoo convention. Behind the eccentricity, a personal pain: "This allows me to live with my health problems," says the performer, with a rare disease causing malformations of the body, Poland syndrome.
During these two days, Matt Gone is the madness of the tattoo parlor key at a time when the skin on needle work has largely commoditized, whether tribal (Maori was very fashionable in 2000s) or old school, pinup genre and eagle heads.
