Riccardo Wildties

Riccardo Wildties, born 1976, is an Italian nawashi in the Naka-ryū.

Era: 2010s

NAWASHI · TEACHER

Italian nawashi, photographer and educator. Initially self-taught, then turned decisively toward Naka Akira's semenawa after encountering Naka's work in 2012 and meeting him in Moscow in 2013. Public biographies place Gorgone in the Kinbaku LuXuria project during 2012; later official LuXuria sources frame Wildties and Red Sabbath as the main teaching / performance pair. Officially became Naka Akira's deshi in 2015 and is commonly described as Naka's ichiban deshi. Kinbaku LuXuria is listed as a Naka-ryu-descended style that re-engineers aspects of the technique for Western students and models while preserving its emotional and aesthetic core.

School: Naka-ryū

Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Naka Akira.

Certified / licensed instructors: Soptik, Sansei, Andrea Kurogami, Eric Shore, Nawa Erabu.

Influences (mutual or directional): Federico Kirigami, DirtyVonP, RopEmotion, Yulia Vasileva, Door, Margout Darko, Zor, NegraNoche, Andrei Tanto, Alexander MA, Shiawase, SweetZephyr, Thure Nyyrikki, Stuart, Lexienawa.

Collaborators: Amanita, WykD Dave, Red Sabbath.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Kinbaku LuXuria, Nawa Naka Kai, RopeFest 2010s, Prague Shibari Fest 2010s, London Festival of Rope Art / Japanese Bondage, Morikai Studio, EURIX 2010s, Peony Studio, Bound Lark Rope Studio, Rebstudiet.