Felipe Pantone (b. 1986, Argentina) has earned an international reputation in the graffiti world under the name of Pant1, multiplying actions and collaborations. A prolific artist, his creations are visible on the walls of the whole world: from the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center to the Long Beach Museum of Art (USA) and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), passing by Mexico City, Osaka, Lisbon, Palestine, Italy or Australia. Pantone started doing graffiti at the age of 12. He graduated with a fine art degree in Valencia (Spain) where his studio is based. His work deals with dynamism, transformation, omnipresence, and themes related to the present times. Felipe Pantone evokes a spirit in his work that feels like a collision between an analog past and a digitized future, where human beings and machines will inevitably glitch alongside one another in a prism of neon gradients, geometric shapes, optical patterns, and jagged grids. Based in Spain, Pantone is a byproduct of the technological age when kids unlocked life’s mysteries through the Internet. As a result of this prolonged screen time, he explores how the displacement of the light spectrum impacts color and repetition. “Color only happens because of light, and light is the only reason why life happens”, Pantone says. “Light and color are the very essence of visual art. Thanks to television, computers, and modern lighting, our perception of light and color has changed completely”.
FELIPE PANTONE