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JonOne

Le Nord

2020

Acrylic on canvas

149 × 208 cm

Unique

Location: Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

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About the artwork

JonOne's remarkably vivid painting is composed of white tags on a black and blue background. JonOne's paint sprays seem to frame the composition, giving it a dynamic quality. The result is a work whose energy is reminiscent of the speed with which urban compositions are produced, contributing to the authenticity of the painting. These urban art codes are superimposed on the dripping and all-over practices associated with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism, bringing the canvas as close to a gallery piece as it is to an urban composition.

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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 practice is hailed and recognized as the meeting point between urban art and more modern practices. This work was presented at La Piscine museum in Roubaix in 2023 as part of the "Jonone: La tentation du décor" exhibition.

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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