Felipe Pantone
Bio
Felipe Pantone (Buenos Aires, 1986). As a teenager, he began to create graffiti in the south of Spain and studied fine arts in Valencia. Being graffiti the platform from where the artist undertook the development of an abstract or geometric visual language that aims to be both accessible and democratic, parallel to the current technological discourse. Pantone's work retains the public vocation of graffiti, of urban communities in dialogue with the city itself. The abstraction, in principle used as a stylistic mark, is poured towards the referents of a present full of infographics, graphs, statistics, and visual representations of data that synthesize vast realities in quickly accessible formats.
Pantone constantly reproduces the saturation of our contemporary visual experience, making important echoes of the modernizing work of kinetic art and its investigation of perception based on current theories of sight.
Statement
His work is a reflection on the overabundance of information, the speed of the digital and our relationship with screens, reality and light in the world of the instant. His work is distinguished by the combination of typography, traditional graffiti and abstract elements, fusing graphic design with complex geometric figures, resulting in a modern and futuristic aesthetic.
Throughout his paintings and sculptures, Felipe Pantone gives optical art a contemporary update by using 3D modeling software to evoke the glitches and grids of the digital landscape. He uses bold colors and a mathematical appreciation of shadow and form while generating optical illusions. He combines his prismatic and digitized forms with bold gestures from graffiti to generate a visual language that embraces both the analog and virtual worlds, and critiques our dependence on the latter.
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