About the artwork
This work is made up of black tags enhanced by a few bright orange spots. Executed in cursive script, the lettering remains deliberately illegible, like a language we can't yet read. This writing, JonOne's artistic signature, is the result of rapid, gestural work. While the bursts of color, like touches of life, evoke the dripping practices associated with Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, the writing recalls the rapid execution of urban compositions, bringing the silkscreen as close to a gallery piece as to an urban composition.
Expert opinion
The calligraphic composition and splashes of color reflect JonOne's distinctive style.
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.
“Painting opens me up to myself, allowing me to communicate with who I really am.”
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