Retna x BTS Skate Deck 5

Very rare work by MSK RETNA (Marquis Lewis). These works are hard to come across in this condition, much less with the original certificate of authenticity, signed by Retna in the original Beyond the Streets box. The deck is in excellent condition. Included will be the deck, the certificate of authenticity in original packaging as well as a brand new 360 degree rotatable wall mount. These look incredible on the wall. In the early 1970s, skate culture and street art became deeply intertwined, and a new medium for artists was born: the skate deck. In earlier days, when skateboarding was a still a subculture on the fringe, simply being a skater was enough to set oneself apart from the crowd. However, the growing popularity of the sport pushed many creative skaters to find ways to individualize their boards Borrowing from motifs and styles popularized by graffiti artists, skaters designed the undersides of their boards an extension of themselves. In t