For its unique project of 2010, Mekanism gave carte blanche to German artist Anselm Reyle.

“For his project for Mekanism, Anselm Reyle applied several thin layers of spray painted neon pink and added two different mudstone coloured paints before the boards were covered with a two-component lacquer, giving a shiny surface. In these works the boundary between the slickness of the neon pink and the roughness of the brown paints – resembling mud, sand or dirt – is blurred by the lacquer. Glossy and matt, fl ashy and dark, slick and rough are now inextricably intertwined. But beyond the contradiction of colours and textures, the artist is contrasting our prospect of neon pink as a colour used for posters of the punk and the psychedelic scene in the 70s and 80s with the mudstone colours applied in post war gestural abstract paintings, notably in Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel.”

The Anselm Reyle deck series consists of 50 skateboards, each signed and numbered by the artist.

More images of the process and the decks follow after the jump.

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Mekanism’s second project for 2008 features the art of German born, New York resident, Dirk Skreber. Skreber has painted 50 skateboards in groupings, using the boards as pieces of a larger canvases. His work depicts car crashes and disasters, that from afar appear calm. All in all, he’s created four large scale works, two using 15 boards each and the others using 10.

View the three other pieces by Dirk Skreber for Mekanism after the jump.

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For its first artist project in 2008, Mekanism Skateboards gave carte blanche toAmerican painter Thaddeus Strode. Overall the artist painted onto 40 skatedecks, which are all individually signed and numbered.
After previously working with Delta, Katharina Grosse and other big names in the art world, this is another impressive project by Mekanism Skateboards. 
You can now inquire about the pieces over at the Mekanism Website.

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Once again Mekanism presents an outstanding new project and this time gave carte blanche to German painter Albert Oehlen. Even though we have seen other artist collaboration projects by Mekanism, this project is a new approach. Albert Oehlen since the beginning of his career tries to question our conception of beauty and ugliness, which you can see in all of his paintings, collages and images.
For this project with Mekanism, the artist painted a skull with a pig nose onto 50 skateboard decks. After using severl stencils for the general form of the skull, the rest including the details and the nose have been handpainted, making each deck unique.
This project is an edition of 50 handpainted skabteboard decks. Each is original and unique and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered by Albert Oehlen.
The boards will be released September 12th. Check out detailed pictures after the jump.

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