This triptych is formed by three skate decks made of 7 ply grade A Canadian maple.
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York
This skateboard set reproduces Both Poles (1982), an iconic work by Jean-Michel Basquiat that encapsulates the tensions running through his visual language: past and present, earth and sky, history and immediacy. The original piece, executed in acrylic, oil stick, and collage, presents a fragmented scene dominated by a symbolic mountain, a crescent moon, and charged elements such as a sickle and a post.
Here, Basquiat confronts “both poles” of his inner and outer worlds: excavation and invocation, memory and transmission. This edition brings that conceptual force into the urban language of skateboarding, becoming both a collectible object and a contemporary artistic statement.
Transposed onto the skateboard format, the work becomes a visual declaration that bridges art and street culture, while preserving the expressive and conceptual intensity of the original.
