Ivan Trapiani

TRAP TATTOO sees the light in 1999 thanks to the artistic views and intuition of Ivan Trapiani, who in the course of previous years, studied art & painting in Venice.

Ivan developed an objective and sensitive way of researching in the tattoo field and art, trying to satisfy the requirements and desires of his clients.

Today, The Tattoo Studio, based in Piove di Sacco (north of Italy), is boasted by various successes and contests won at European tattoo conventions, with consequent publications in tattoo magazines. Seriousness and professionalism are the rules applied in the studio.

Through tattoos, every person expresses his or her own personality and it is the job of the tattooist is to make this personality stand out at its best. A long, creative, and intense artistic evolution has brought Ivan to create his own personal style, through a mix of realism blended with graphical images , producing an effect lying between dark, gothic and romantic. It creates an “alliance” of Black and White and a little red, sometimes.

Ivan feels the need to spread his art to the entire world. He collaborates as guests with many famous Italian and International Tattoo Studios, and is always on the move to find new ideas, new experiences and culture. He has also offered hospitality to many famous International Tattoo artists. I recently had the chance to interview Ivan over the phone and dig a little deeper into the mind of this amazing artist. Let’s get right down to it.... Philip: For our readers who are not familiar with you, please tell me a bit about yourself. When did you start tattooing?

Ivan: I started tattooing in 1998, close to exactly 18 years now.

Philip: Wow that’s a long time! What got you interested in tattooing?