Felipe Pantone

Felipe Pantone (born 1986) is an Argentine-Spanish contemporary artist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and raised in southeast Spain. Pantone's body of work is based in kinetic art, installations, graffiti, and design, characterized by “use of bold colors, geometrical patterns, and Op Art elements.” His combinations recall “bright colored typography, 80s Synth pop music, and SMPTE color bars on the TV.”

History
Pantone began doing graffiti as Pant1 in Torrevieja, Spain, then moved to Valencia at the age of 18, where he started painting with the D.O.C.S crew and later became part of UltraBoyz (UB). He became known for his avant-garde cursive handstyle.

Pantone began showing his work in galleries in 2006. It has since appeared on buildings, walls and in galleries worldwide, from the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center to the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, as well as in Mexico City, Osaka, Lisbon, Palestine, Italy, and Australia. Pantone has been featured in various forms of media, including Reebok's "Always Classic" campaign. He used a 1994 Corvette as a canvas for his pixelated graphics, a piece presented in the exhibit Beyond the Streets. The piece is now known as "Ultradynamic".

Style
Pantone often works in gradients, blending geometric shapes with neon colors and white and blacks, with critics noting "The divisions between geometric patterns and gradients are so effortlessly blended that the larger patterns seem created with digitization rather than with two hands." He cites the Parisian Grim Team and UltraBoyz crews as early influences.

Forbes magazine called his aesthetic "the intersection of Blade Runner and PhotoShop" for its concepts of dynamism, transformation and movement. Others have said he has created a new visual dialogue derived from his infatuation with the digital age, comparing his work to Venezuelan Op artist Carlos Cruz-Diez's chromatic linework and the geometric graphics of Jonathan Zawada.

2015

 * Stereodynamica - Backwood Gallery, Melbourne AUSTRALIA
 * Opticromías - Delimbo, Sevilla SPAIN
 * Resituation - Constant, Hong Kong CHINA

2016

 * Scroll Panorama - Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico D.F, Mexico
 * Cyberspazio Tubolare - Outdoor Festival, Rome, Italy
 * Data Somersault - StolenSpace Gallery, London
 * Data Smog - Lebenson Gallery, Paris
 * W3-Dimensional - Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017

 * Afterimage - Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
 * Planned Iridescence - GR Gallery, New York, NY
 * Planar Direction - Station16 Gallery, Montreal, Canada
 * Artifact to Human Communication - Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2018

 * Excès de Vitesse - Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 * Dynamic Phenomena - Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris
 * W3-DIMENSIONAL PARK - Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand
 * Transformable Systems - Joshua Liner Gallery, New York City USA

2019

 * Axioma de Constructibilidad - Articruz, Panama City PANAMA
 * Distance, Speed, Time, Formula - Danysz Gallery, Shanghai CHINA

2020

 * Contactless - Albertz Benda, New York City USA
 * Big Time Data - RGR Galery, Mexico City MEXICO

2021

 * Casa Variable - Danysz Gallery, Paris FRANCE
 * Veladura Digital - Galería Javier López & Fer Francés (The Playground), Madrid SPAIN

2022

 * Convergencias (with Elías Crespin) - Galería RGR, CDMX MÉXICO
 * Manipulable - Gallery Common, Tokyo JAPAN
 * Metallic Contact - Albertz Benda, New York City USA

2023

 * Kosmos - Control Gallery, Los Ángeles USA
 * Prospective - Kunsthal, Rotterdam NL

2013

 * Venganza – group exhibition with Sozyone Gonzalez & Demsky333 at Celal Gallery, Paris – February / March

2016

 * Truck Art Project - Madrid, Spain
 * Painting / Object - Library Street Collective, Los Angeles CA, USA
 * The New Vanguard - Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster CA, USA
 * Welcome Back - Colab Gallery, Wheil Am Rhein GERMANY
 * Vitality and Verve - Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA, USA
 * Spectra - Marion Gallery, Panama City PANAMA

2017

 * Scope Art Fair - With Mirus Gallery, Miami, FL
 * Interferences, Contemporary Op & Kinetic Art - GR Gallery, New York, NY
 * Ultra-Plasticism - PBX Creativa, Madrid, Spain
 * Chromadynamica Dimensional - Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, USA

2018

 * Summer Mixer - Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
 * Beyond the Streets - Los Angeles, CA
 * Art from the Streets - ArtScience Museum - SINGAPORE

2019

 * Vibrations - Danysz Gallery, Paris FRANCE
 * Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist II - Joshua Liner Gallery, New York City USA
 * From the World, Made in Lisboa - Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon PORTUGAL
 * Dream Box - MIMA Museum, Brussels BELGIUM

2021

 * MISA.art - König Galerie, Berlin GERMANY

2022

 * Endless Summer - Albertz Benda, Los Angeles USA

2023

 * Beyond the Streets - Saatchi Gallery, London UK