Felipe Pantone // Solo exhibition
A constellation of colours, patterns, textures, graphics and materialities that, spread throughout Underdogs’ exhibition space, influence our perception of the present. A system of connections between physical space, digital space and celestial space. In this exhibition, Felipe Pantone continues to explore the logic and rationality of technology combined with the analogue, aesthetic and sensory experience of human beings that only he can construct.
“Perceptual Phenomena, Color Spaces, Structural Honesty” is the highly descriptive title the artist has chosen to highlight important explorations in his artistic practice: colour as a participatory experience; the way in which chromatic phenomena are captured and processed by the senses and the brain; and transparent architectural structures that reveal themselves rather than hide behind finishes. With over twenty years’ experience in the fields of graffiti and urban art, the artist who holds a degree in fine arts and is self-taught in computing has been incorporating movement, vibrancy and dynamism into his studio work, characterised by colour gradients, geometric patterns and the aesthetics of the glitch, the digital error.
The Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, a tireless researcher of the theories and perceptions of colour, wrote: “I propose autonomous colour, without anecdotes, devoid of symbolism; colour seen as an ephemeral situation in continuous mutation, creating realities at every instant.” For him, colours were situations explored beyond the two-dimensionality of painting, occupying space like participatory sculptures. The master of op art is a key reference for Pantone, who incorporates optical art (whose elements create the illusion of movement) and kinetic art (works that actually move) into his work.
In Felipe Pantone’s futuristic works, such experimentation transforms painting, sculpture, installation and large-scale works into urban landscapes to dialogue with the flux and frenzy of contemporary life. The artist investigates how, today, superstimuli caused by constant exposure to screens has dramatically altered human beings’ relationship with colour and light. His works are microcosms that don’t freeze but accompany and incorporate the increasingly agile transformations of our reality.
