"...without distances. There are no distances of any kind that resist his versatility, his self-confidence, his disinhibition. There is no distance between the self-taught young graffiti artist and the artist he is now. There is no distance between inside and outside, between project and object, between author and spectator, between the work and the image, between the unique and the multiple, between the local and the global, between success and error, between freedom and the limits, between the studio and the street, between doubt and certainty, between one and the others, between history and the future. If we adopted a statically chronological point of view, we would say that there is a lot of distance in the intense path traveled by Pantone to date, however I am convinced that it is nothing compared to what remains to be done. And of course, that journey will not be linear or straight. His lines are closer to string theory than to the patterned lines of writing.

Generally we associate space with the static and time with the dynamic. Felipe Pantone shows us again and again the falsity of this generality. In his works everything flows, changes, moves. Everything is dynamic, active, reactive. Everything is vibration in constant movement, persistent, present. A present made physical, brimming with energy in perpetual transformation. A present that does not stop changing, fleeting and slippery, prodigal son of that liquid modernity (Zigmunt Bauman) who escapes between the apprehensive fingers of history and slides unstoppable into the future."

Extract of Catching the light (without distances)

Juan Bautista Peiró
Universitat Politècnica de València

"Felipe Pantone 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. Invited to the 2016 edition of the Maus Festival in Malaga, the artist has completely repainted a bridge overlooking the river Guadalmedina. Felipe Pantone is the spearhead of a renewed street art scene, which is not confined to outdoor spaces and enchains projects: majestic frescoes, paintings, sculptures or monumental installations.

Felipe Pantone's approach is to question the current era and its propensity to place new technologies at the center of our daily lives, making us dependent on a superabundance of images and symbols. He himself is passionate about the advent of the internet that allows instant access to the entire history of humanity. The problems he addresses are contemporary and universal: movement, the notion of time, saturation, alienation and destruction.

Considered today as one of the rising stars of international street art, Felipe Pantone, 31, "child of the internet era" as he says himself, exceeds the notion of outdoor spaces and connects projects: monumental frescoes, paintings, sculptures and unusual facilities. Influenced by the era of the Internet of the 80s and 90s, fed with new technologies, he imagines his geometric subjects on modeling software, taking up the aesthetics of 3D creation, which he then reproduces in XXL format or on canvases. It brings them to life by superimposing their installations into disturbing illusions of optics that result in an explosion or an electric shock.

In a powerful dynamic, Pantone extends on the walls with its futuristic style with psychedelic accents that evokes Italian Futurism. There are also abstract and stroboscopic touches that articulate black and white geometric shapes that he combines with bright metallic colors, not unlike the Mire, a visual that appears on the television when there is no show. Visual explosion of a certain brutality, his work is stored in the kinetic art, in the footsteps of a Victor Vasarely or Carlos Cruz-Diez."

Magda Danysz
Danysz Gallery

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