About the artwork
Divided into various geometric spaces suggesting the saturation of television images, the work features a metallic form in the top right evoking an atom. Somewhere between art and science, this print seems to explore atomic particles and decompose light waves on a scale ranging from nanometers to femtometers. This representation of the invisible is akin to a decomposition of matter. The title of the work, Optichromie 122, also reflects a scientific approach. Striving for rationality and precision, Felipe Pantone seems to encode his artistic practice with infinite, ever-changing combinations, which he himself describes as "leaps in space". Although this chaos is carefully controlled, it infuses his work with a dynamism that is as much a part of the digital age as it is of geometric abstraction. Felipe Pantone's practice follows in the footsteps of the great currents of the 70s, kinetic and optical art, which explored the workings of vision through illusions and optical games.
Expert opinion
This edition reflects Felipe Pantone's characteristic pictorial language through atomic scientific exploration and luminous decompositions, questioning the physical reality of the digital world.
About the artist
Born in Buenos Aires in 1986, Felipe Pantone is an Argentinian-Spanish artist who lives and works in Valencia, Spain. Initially drawn to graffiti, he studied Fine Arts in Valencia, where he graduated. His artistic practice explores movement, transformation and the digital, standing at the junction between an analog past and a digital future. Felipe Pantone approaches contemporary subjects using a scientific prism, superimposing and repeating geometric shapes, optical patterns and light spectra to create a form of abstraction inspired by kinetic artists such as Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez. Following in the latter's footsteps, he takes on projects in public spaces, embellishing walls, vehicles and even barges. Exhibited in renowned institutions such as the Long Beach Museum in the USA and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, his work has also found its way into galleries such as the Danysz Gallery in Paris and Shanghai, and the Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon.
“Light and color are the very essence of visual art. Thanks to television, computers and modern lighting, our perception of light and color has completely changed.”
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