About the artwork
The size of this diptych and the contrast of its color palette lend it a certain monumentality. The bright orange paint, applied lengthwise like a bolt of lightning, stands out against the depth of the blue surface, accentuating the horizontality of the work. The background, applied in a thick layer and then stretched out from left to right, reveals thin streaks of dry paint translating a repetition of gesture. As part of his research into shapes, the artist discreetly squares the work, directing the eye from bottom to top. Using a gradient technique ranging from deep blue to an almost electric royal blue, he focuses the viewer's gaze on this visual explosion of color, which he arranges in a line. This geometrization, with which the artist plays, brings a three-dimensionality to the work, a relief between matter and color. If the essence of Franck Noto's practice lies in gesture, movement and color variation, this work is an illustration of this. Like a setting sun on a sea of oil before an extinguished sky, this composition reflects his creative immediacy, surely inherited from his graffiti practice. Produced as part of his invitation to the Musée Fabre (Montpellier) to celebrate Soulages' 100th birthday, the work born of this tribute is unique.
Expert opinion
An exceptional work, this dyptique is part of Franck Noto's mature artistic creation. The contrast between the bright and dark colors creates a depth with which he loves to play, and which is particularly evident in his Fréquences and Undercover series.
About the artist
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.
“"The bright colors symbolize the aspect of Urban Art that immediately catches the eye of passers-by, even before they express a positive or negative opinion about what they see."”
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