Profile
Dali —the tattoo artist, designer, webmeister and tribal chief of the Graphic Tribe— doesn’t really like talking about himself in the third person, so here’s the
Self–Introduction
I was born in in Bucureşti, the capital city of România and moved to Tokyo in . Been here ever since.
I’ve been drawing since I was 2–3 years old, I’ve been tattooing since 1993 (June, this year, 31 years) —first, at “Body Design ’69” in București, then at a co-owned shop in Shibuya and Meguro and, eventually, at my own studio in Nakameguro and Ebisu— and the first time I ever touched a computer (an ancient Macintosh box) was sometime in 2000.
I’m quasi-ambidextrous, I speak Română, English and 日本語 more or less fluently and, if there’s enough time to get to know me, I seem to be “a nice guy”. Sedentary to the core, but not completely broken :)
Résumé
Studies
- 1987–1990 • sculpture and artistic design —graphics section— at the ”Nicolae Tonitza” Art School, in Bucureşti;
- 1989–1991 • basic business management at The College for Economic Studies No. 9, in Bucureşti;
- 1990–1992 • commercial illustration —advertising, ambient design and interior decorations section— at The College for Decorative Arts No. 43, in Bucureşti.
Other Activities
- 1990–1992 • various jobs as window dresser, interior decorator, clothing designer;
- 1992–1993 • slavery, also known as “military service”…
Tattooing
- 1993–1996 • Body Design ’69 Tattoo Studio, in Bucureşti;
- 1996–2002 • Tattoo Art Maruyama, in Shibuya and later on, in Meguro, Tokyo;
- From March 2002 onward • Graphic Tribe Tattoos, initially in Nakameguro and, since June 2008, in Ebisu…
