Franck Noto

Franck Noto, aka Zest, is a visual artist born in Montpellier in 1980. Born into an art-sensitive family whose father was a painter-draftsman, his artistic taste was already pronounced in his childhood. But it was in 1995, when he came face to face with graffiti, that his desire to create really took off. Fascinated by color and the abstraction of gesture, his work is imbued with urban culture, the essence of his creativity. In his work and his research into form, Noto uses a variety of tools, including markers, rollers, spray cans, brushes and paintbrushes. A self-taught artist, he is now recognized worldwide from New York to Nouméa for his mural and studio work, and is penetrating new markets such as design with Philippe Starck and fashion with Agnès b. Present in numerous group shows (Geneva, 2014; Buenos Aires, 2017; San Francisco, 2017; London, 2017; Hamburg, 2023), the artist is also featured in some twenty monographic exhibitions (Bangkok, 2013; Zurich, 2018; Marseille, 2019; Paris, 2022...). In 2020, he collaborates with the Musée Fabre (Montpellier) under his pseudonym for an exhibition in honor of Soulages' 100th birthday.