I’m very to happy to announce the creation of a new platform to show and sell my artwork alongside my friends El Carlo and Rotor. From now on, you’ll be able to find my original artwork, prints and T-shirts among other collective projects in our website. We want to thank everyone who has had the patience to wait.
This is just the beginning of something really stimulating for us and we hope to make it interesting for You all. We want to know your opinions about the site and our products so don’t doubt to follow us on instagram and if you like, spread the word!
Click on the link below to visit our online store. Thanks.
Si os interesan los motivos de mi marcha y saber un poco más de mi visiĂłn sobre mi propio trayecto en el estudio, seguid leyendo por favor. A los crĂticos con los despliegues de fantasĂa egomaniaca…mejor nos vemos otro dĂa:
Junto a Monga, Carlo y Rotor, destaco sin pestañear el contacto profesional y humano con los miembros de la A.T.F de la cual formo parte. En el verano de 2012 estuvimos todos juntos para esta imagen tomada por un fotógrafo turista ocasional que pasaba por allà en ese preciso momento:
De izquierda a derecha : Sarah Mastrobuono (assistant), Peter Braineater (manager), Tai Iglesias, Kike Bugni, Monga (frontman), yo, Carlo, Marco Rossettini y Rotor.
Faltan otros miembros nacionales e internacionales de la familia como Jarno Kantanen o Jonas Nyberg, El Javi Aloha, Diego Brandi, Victor Kan o Dave Ramirez en la foto, más los que me dejo por no acordarme! Mandadme un mail y os inserto. Además contamos con más guests de los que puedo recordar ahora mismo, entre ellos talentos indiscutibles como Rudy Fritsch, Theo Mindell, Deno, Guy le Tattooer, Paul Dobleman, Rempe, Matt Bivetto, Walter de Souza Lobo, JB Marks, Billi Boi, Bueno, Jesus Cuesta…Sin contar los guests que estuvieron en el antiguo Aloha : Chad Koeplinger, Bert Krak, Steve Boltz, Eli Quinters, Eric Von Bartholomaus… la lista es inabarcable para los fans del coleccionismo tatuajero.
Inicio ahora una nueva etapa personal y profesional. Por libre y a ciegas. Amigos y clientes, estoy siempre disponible para hablar sobre vuestros tattoos y material para vuestras bandas de rock. Todo este rollo que he soltado antes es solo ciencia masturbaciĂłn si vosotros no venĂs. Os debo mi estilo de vida cojonudo durante 11 años.  Enviadme un mail aquĂ los interesados en ponerse en contacto conmigo por cualquier cuestiĂłn :
david@davidtejero.com
Gracias por todo.
» For we are monsters, we love our work»
Lemmy Kilmister
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For the english readers, please forgive my lack of skills to make a precise translation of the text above. I’ve done my best:Â
Hello everyone,
I want to comunicate that after almost four years of working at Aloha Tattoos Barcelona, I leave the studio. It hasn´t been an easy choice and I feel deeply sad for getting out of my house during my best time as a tattooer to the present day.
If you are interested in the reasons of my departure and my own view of my experience in the studio, please keep on reading. If you are willing to criticize my display of egomaniac fantasy…we can catch up another day:
This was the beginning of my stage at Aloha. The experience was shocking although I knew Monga and the other guys from getting tattooed by them at their old location in the Gracia neighbourhood. Â Me and many others I guess, were following the evolution of the most creative tattoo shop in town for years. We regarded Aloha as a professional referent of undeniable artistic and ethic value. If I ever thought of working at another place outside Hospitalet, it was Aloha. With the opening of the new and big Aloha location, I can say with your permission, a new chapter in the history of Barcelona’s tattoo history was written. This is a unique achievement unreachable for an immense majority and the opening show was the best prove of it. The contribution by many national and international tattooers hasn’t been overcome neither in quantity nor quality in our city. Five years have passed and I still feel priviliged for my contribution on this day and place.
I joined Aloha the year after this event took place. In the mean time and thanks to Carlo’s initiative, I started my own brand of quality prints for tattooers. This would be the beginning phase of my later work at lacobranegrashop.com. With few tattoos to be done and a lot of prints to take care of I got involved in the studio with a blast of energy and motivation.
Not longer after Monga passed to me my first Aloha client. From then on I focused my work on the black and grey style and lettering mostly. I also did the walk-in tattoos along with Rotor and the other guys. I can not remember the exact date when lacobranegrashop.com increased its sales and Monga offered me to take care of it. I just quit my own brand to keep on producing and sale the stuff for Aloha and La Cobra.
From then on, I’ve helped to produce a huge ammount of prints, sketchbooks and T-shirts for my colleagues. You can find the list here in the bio section of my blog. This work drove me to help Monga and Carlo in their travels to the London and Milano Tattoo Conventions in order to sell the stuff I’ve designed and produced for lacobranegrashop.com . I’m still grateful for those travels where I spent nothing and earned everything.
Beside Monga, Carlo and Rotor, I point out the professional and personal link with all the A.T.F members. We were all together in the summer of 2012 and we got occasionally photographed by a tourist who appeared to be a real pro :
From left to right: Â Sarah Mastrobuono (assistant), Peter Braineater (manager), Tai Iglesias, Kike Bugni, Monga (frontman), myself, Carlo, Marco Rossettini and Rotor.
Many A.T.F members both national and international are missed in this picture…Jarno Kantanen, Jonas Nyberg, El Javi Aloha, Diego Brandi, Victor Kan or Dave Ramirez…please send me a message if I’m missing someone on this list! I will add you. We also had many guests of exceptional talent as Rudy Fritsch, Theo Mindell, Deno, Guy le Tattooer, Paul Dobleman, Rempe, Matt Bivetto, Walter de Souza Lobo, JB Marks, Billi Boi, Jesus Cuesta, Bueno…And also the ones who went to the old Aloha studio : Chad Koeplinger, Bert Krak, Steve Boltz, Eli Quinters, Eric Von Bartholomaus…the list is huge for the interested tattoo collector.
All this energy and lifes dedicated to the tattoo work were joined together during the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. I’ve written a lot of words and I haven’t gone deep into my experience at Aloha. I guess this would be an excellent stuff for a book of crossed interviews where Monga would have a lot to say. Hipster journalists, be aware of this gold mine… guaranteed laughs, hysteria, lots of money.
During this years, some articles had been published on specialized magazines and many other times we just forget to answer back to the interviews they sent us. We’ve been also lucky to participate in tattoo flash compilations. For those interested in knowing more about Aloha, there is an interesting book named «Forever The New Tattoo» published by Gestalten where Monga speaks about its own and the studio too.
I give thanks again to been promoted in such a high level.
And…without being a major event in my life, Carlo left Aloha two years ago. After working alongside with Monga during ten years, he started a carreer on his own. I must say that his departure was a breaking point for us but we kept on working at a very high level. Anyway…I got his work station and I decorated it as real non soviet human being. I talked about my masters before, he is one of them too.
The year after Carlo’s departure, Rotor and Dimoni left us too. If you want to know the reasons…just ask them! Is not my work to explain their careers. Thanks to our daily life in the studio alongside our ghost children who play with themselves in the darkness ( yes dudes, Aloha has some ghosts living in the basement. They are children and they are cool. No jokes ), today I have two more friends who share my black future. Rotor is my master too. Nestor I love you but we have to know each other better.
On September 2015, heading for the London Tattoo Convention once again, my implication with the studio was beyond any initial suspicion. In four years I managed our online shop, produced a significant ammount of merch for Aloha and my friends, contributed to all the art shows, managed the social media of Aloha and La Cobra, helped in the photoshop design alongside Peter of logos and promos, a daily implication in the shop management….I was also tattooing!!! And more than ever on a monthly basis also at Unity Tattoo Granada. Thanks again Monga, Dave and David for the opportunity of working in South Spain. I was exhausted and carried my self with many domestic problems I’ve always tried to keep out of the shop. I must apologize to my colleagues and friends if I sent out bad vibrations those days.
I guess you want to know about my reasons to leave Aloha. I’ll try to satisfy your curiosity:
I leave Aloha after all this amazing experience into the tattoo culture because I’m tired. I can’t solve it with some days off and I can’t longer depend on some other calls to build my future both as a tattooer and individual. I know many of you are freelance tattooers, but as you read before, I’ve always been a team player. It’s been very hard for me to understand that I must look out for myself. Aloha is facing an incredible challenge in a new stage of renovation and needs a 200% implication state of mind from all the new crew. I can’t give that anymore and I’m sad to think I’m becoming more egocentric. Monga, forgive my lack of faith in these moments. I’m completely aware of all the things that happened during my days at Aloha. Thanks to that, I guess I’m in the top five people who understand what we’ve done together and what we’ve tried to do for our profession. Obviously, you are my master too.
I learned everything from the start at Aloha.
I’m starting a new professional and personal stage in my life. Free and blindly. Friends and clients, I’m always available to talk about your new tattoos and stuff for your rock bands. All this boring words I have wrote are just science masturbation if you don’t visit me. I owe you my amazing way of life during eleven years. Send me an e-mail here:
david@davidtejero.comÂ
Thanks for everything.
«For we are monsters, we love our work»
Lemmy Kilmister
Para reservar tu cita en Granada lo mejor es que pases directamente por el estudio y hables con Buby. Para dudas y consultas puedes escribirme un mail aquĂ : david@davidtejero.com
De ahora en adelante voy a estar más pendiente de este blog como plataforma para mostrar mi trabajo. El formato y la resoluciĂłn de las fotografĂas son Ăłptimos para lo que espero conseguir a la hora de tener un portfolio online. Mis cuentas de facebook, instagram, twitter y tumblr seguirán activas pero no estarán actualizadas con fotografĂas de trabajos completos propiamente. Por eso, una vez más, os doy las gracias a los que os subscribĂs al mailing list de este blog para seguir mi trabajo.
Your Grace is a musical project that born from the desire to integrate ancient philosophy, alchemy and the hermetic of nowadays music. Indeed, It is a contemplative journey through the universe of human passions. A trip to get hold of ancestral rhythms and harmonies without neglecting heavier sounds and powerful rock.
Some of my last tattoos done at The Rome Tattoo Convention this year, Unity Tattoo Granada and Aloha Tattoos Barcelona. Thank you very much for all your support and interesting ideas. If you want to get tattooed please send me an e-mail here:
david@davidtejero.com
I’ll stay all summer in Barcelona. Don’t doubt to write or come directly to the studio and talk. Thanks again!