exhibition JONONE THE EMPIRE OF SIGNATURES
JONONE | L’EMPIRE DES SIGNATURES
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Practical informationJohn Perello, better known as JonOne, was one of the trailblazers of street art in France. Born in Harlem (New York) in 1963 to Dominican parents, he has been living in Paris for nearly thirty years.
He is known for his signature JONONE, across the entire surface of the canvas. Widely discussed at the exhibition “Né dans la rue” at the Cartier Foundation (Paris, 2009), his work takes root in gestural abstract American painting and the pictorial vocabulary of the tag. The result is this unique crossroads, like a kind of tribal signature.
JonOne’s practice is a mature one, without losing sight of his origins: he defines himself as an abstract painter who uses the graphic codes of the street. But when asked about his links with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, he now prefers to be affiliated with Raymond Hains, Jacques Villéglé, Christopher Wool or Ben.
This exhibition at the Clément Foundation is the fruit of his return to the Caribbean of his parents’ birth. It allows us to look at his work retrospectively, from his first paintings at the Hôpital Ephémère to the latest works, in volume or oil, that illustrate the culmination of an artistic journey charged with movement.
Alice Cazaux
