Felipe Pantone

Felipe Pantone (Buenos Aires, 1986) moved to Spain with his family, where he began doing graffiti in his adolescence and studied fine arts in Valencia. Calligraphy and typography, key elements of graffiti, were the foundation from which he developed an abstract or geometric visual language that aims to be both accessible and democratic, parallel to the current technological discourse. His work retains the public nature of graffiti, connecting with urban communities and the city itself.
Initially a stylistic tool, abstraction now refers to elements of the present filled with infographics, graphics, and statistics that condense complex realities into easily accessible formats. Pantone constantly reproduces the saturation of contemporary visual experience, echoing the modernizing work of kinetic art and its investigation of perception based on current theories of vision. In today’s fast-paced world of industrial production (light, color, visual experiences), Pantone disrupts the naturalistic discourse of kinetic art, returning cultural relevance to perception, recognizing color combinations as "glitches" or as underlying codes in printers.