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Boris Leoni
Boris Leoni
Tattoo artist active since the early 1990s, when tattooing in Italy was still built on research, practice, and respect for the craft.
My path began as a self-taught artist, driven by a deep attraction to Japanese symbolism and imagery: a world of characters, myths, and presences, where every subject carries a precise meaning. In Japanese tattooing nothing is accidental. Figures and compositions belong to a symbolic system built over time. A journey to Japan led me to study Tebori, a traditional technique that requires time, control, and awareness.
Today my work takes that language and reinterprets it through a contemporary European sensibility.
A tattoo is a story.
A story that remains.
Your story.
My task is to honor it.
Nice to meet you,
Boris.
PHILOSOPHY
Tebori requires time.
Time creates depth.
Depth creates meaning.
This work is not defined by speed or endurance.
It is defined by presence, control, and intention.
OUR TEAM
