JonOne

Da energy

2013

Acrylic on wood

90 × 80 cm

Unique

Location: Paris, France

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Arianee token ID 698359714

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About the artwork

With a perfectly mastered gradation of colors, JonOne deposits his JonOne Rock blaze on canvas. The result is a work whose energy evokes the speed of urban compositions. The codes of urban art are superimposed on the practices of dripping and all-over, associated with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism, bringing the canvas as close to a studio work as it is to an urban composition.

Expert opinion

This painting is characteristic of the artist's work, whose explosive dynamism serves a composition as rich as it is expressive. Somewhere between urban calligraphy and abstract expressionism, his work is hailed and recognized as the meeting point between urban art and more modern practices.

About the artist

Dominican-born John Andrew Parello alias JonOne was born in New York in 1963. A child of Harlem, he cut his teeth bombing the trains and walls of his neighborhood from the age of seventeen. Quickly and completely self-taught, he made the transition from urban medium to canvas, creating paintings influenced by his own life: hip hop, the street and the subway, reproducing the vision of a graffitied train and its drips. JonOne's practice is characterized by "freestyle", a watchword that imposes no limits, making each of his canvases the result of an abstract improvisation. His first solo exhibition, entitled "Graffitism", took place in 1990 at Galerie Gleditsch 45 in Berlin, Germany. This was followed by group and solo exhibitions all over the world (Tokyo, Monaco, Paris, Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, Brussels...), making JonOne a major artist on the contemporary urban scene.

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