Kyklos Gonzalesii Kylix

Attributed to Rom av.JC

This work is a continuation of Rom av.JC’s work, in which skate culture interacts with the visual codes of Antiquity. Inspired by the circle board created by Mark Gonzales — nine boards fixed end to end to form a perfect circle — it imagines this radical gesture as a forgotten sporting ritual, a fragment of which was found in Chalon-sur-Saône or Beaune.

The central figure, a mythological athlete or archaic skateboarder, moves in an infinite loop. His movements, stylized as if on Attic pottery, evoke the physical tension, momentum, and controlled imbalance that make modern skateboarding so beautiful.

Made from broken skateboards, assembled and then engraved, the work deliberately blurs the boundaries between relic and contemporary creation. It questions what sports, their icons, and their inventions convey to us: stories, gestures, new forms of devotion.

Presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Beaune in Legends of Sport, Passion for Movement, Kyklos Gonzalesii becomes a celebration of movement as a universal language — from ancient Greece to the streets of today.

Title: Kyklos Gonzalesii Kylix

Artist: Attributed to Rom av.JC

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 24 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Skateboards; black-figure

Dimensions: H. 43 in. (110 cm)
length 43 in. (110 cm)

Classification: Vases