Ministry of Culture
182, rue Saint Honoré, Paris, France
April 3rd – May 3rd 2015
Périmètre au Sol is the exact measurement of the line separating the public space from the private space around the Ministry of Culture building on Saint Honoré Street in Paris. I drew the generated line on four big papers (3,70 m x 1,40 m), each one representing one façade. The color code I used is two warm colors for the South and West façades and two cold colors for North and East.
Somerset House
London, U.K.
Exhibition curated by A by P
22 January – 15 February 2015
www.a-by-p.com
www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/mapping-the-city
10 Promenades
Acrylic on wood 122 x 100 cm
For Mapping the City, I presented a sculpture made out of the 10 unplanned walks I did in Beijing in late 2013 and early 2014. I wanted to present the routes in a way as random as the walks happened so I decided to hang them from their center of gravity instead of their cardinal orientation.
More info about the Promenades project here: www.eltono.com/projects/promenades
For inquiries about this artwork, please contact A by P here: www.a-by-p.com/more-info/#contact
Moscow, Russia
September 2014
RUFO – Rudimentary Unidentified Frictional Object
I have been doing research around the idea of “creating while walking” for a long time now (see the Promenades Project I did in Beijing: www.eltono.com/en/projects/promenades), my last idea was to register friction during a walk and I came up with the idea of RUFO – RUFO is a typical dog name in French and also the name of a toy dog that was released in the 80´s. I decided the four letters would stand for “Rudimentary Unidentified Frictional Object”.
Basically, I wanted to drag an artwork along a defined path and register the way it decays. I was doing tests around this idea when I was asked to participate in Artmossphere Biennial in Moscow so I decided to do the first RUFO experiment in the street of the Russian capital. I painted 11 wood boards with bold colored graphics and one by one dragged them around the city on different paths I had selected earlier (around the exhibition space, in random neighborhood, around the Red Square, around the hotel…). Each walk was between one and two kilometers, except for RUFO #9 where I walked for 2,5 kilometers and the painting almost disappeared entirely. Having the artwork interacting with the outside was crucial – showing artworks in the state they came out of the studio doesn’t interest me – my idea was to “print” the city onto each board turning them into witnesses of a walk, an experience. On the back of each board I showed the map of the walk and all the data generated (date, time, duration, distance and name of the streets wandered) – note that during the biennial, I showed reproductions of the back of the boards on spare boards for the people to understand better the story.
Pictures by Natalia Solovieva – Thanks to everybody at Artmosspere and to the people from Codered.
Ritmo
Via Grotte Bianche 62, Catania, Italy
June 9th – August 31st 2014
MOMO & Eltono
Inspired by the nearby market and particularly its cleaning activity, we designed 6 shapes and made up a device to generate random compositions with them. By shaking the device, we generated and documented hundreds of compositions; 52 were chosen, reproduced as collages and framed.
Video showed during the exhibition:
(Click on the picture to enlarge)
These artworks are for sale through the Ritmo gallery.
Slowtrack
C/ Cañizares 12, Madrid, Spain
March 27 – May 26 2014
First room:
Boîte à Compositions: www.eltono.com/exhibitions/solo/amalgama/boite-a-compositions
Modulo L: www.eltono.com/exhibitions/solo/amalgama/modulo-l
Nebulosas: www.eltono.com/exhibitions/solo/amalgama/nebulosas
Road Prints: www.eltono.com/exhibitions/solo/amalgama/road-prints
Patio:
Armatoste: www.eltono.com/exhibitions/solo/amalgama/armatoste
Second room:
I presented the outcome of 7 walks I did in Beijing for the Promenades project: www.eltono.com/projects/promenades
If you are interested in purchasing any of these pieces, please contact the gallery: www.slowtracksociety.com
Pictures by Eltono and ©Miguel Rosón (www.v15.es)
Thanks LUCE, Esther, Dani and Greta, Nov9 and everybody at Slowtrack.
Jonathan Levine Gallery
525 W 22nd Street, New York, USA
7 August – 24 august 2013
Curated by Marc and Sara Schiller
Since I started painting geometric shapes using masking tape I have always found the moment right before pulling the tape off very interesting. At first, it looks a bit uncontrolled and messy but with a closer look, you can already begin to see an organized structure among the chaos of the tape and paint. Because painting in the street (for obvious reasons) has to be a quick action, this moment where the paint and the tape exist simultaneously is always extremely short. The idea for this new series called “One Minute Before” is to generate a collection of drawings based on the re-creation of this brief moment just before the tape is pulled off and the painting is revealed – a moment that, apart from myself, very few people have ever seen. All the drawings are based on real paintings that exist or have existed in the street, most of them painted illegally.
The first three drawings of this series were created in Beijing in June 2013 using pencil, acrylic and watercolor on paper.
This new series of work was presented to the public for the first time during the Wooster Collective 10th Anniversary Show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York in August of 2013.
To ask about availability and prices of these artworks, please write an email to: artworks@eltono.com
Doppelgaenger Gallery
Via Verrone 8, Bari, Italy
June 25th – September 15th 2013
8 Linee attraverso 4 Punti – Randomly generated mural painting – Mural executed for the Fresh Flâneurs show in Doppelgaenger Gallery.
“8 lines made of 4 points” – Following a very simple set of predetermined rules, I painted eight lines; each one of them was made of four points randomly positioned on a defined plane.
Doppelgaenger Gallery
Via Verrone 8, Bari, Italy
June 25th – September 15th 2013
Curated by Vittorio Parisi – directed by Antonella Spano and Michele Spinelli
I presented three works for the Fresh Flâneurs exhibition in Bari: 8 Linee attraverso 4 Punti, a random painting experiment on a wall inside the gallery, Schegge, a new participative installation from the series Astillas and a mural painting on a public building in the city.
“8 lines made of 4 points” – Following a very simple set of predetermined rules, I painted eight lines; each one of them was made of four points randomly positioned on a defined plane.
As in previous Astillas installations, I individually painted 41 pieces of wood I found in the streets of Bari. Before the opening, I arranged the pieces on the floor leaving the construction of the installation and the evolution of its compositions in the visitors’ hands.
Three façades (12 x 5, 12 x 5 and 12 x 8 m.) on a city maintenance building on via Matteo Renato Imbriani.
Thanks to Dopplegaenger Gallery: Antonella, Michele, Vittorio and Eugenio, to Carlo and Giovani and to LUCE.
