Eltono

Eltono is a French artist born in the suburbs of Paris in 1975.[1] His work is mostly influenced by his graffiti background.[2] He started painting around 1989[3] in his neighborhood[4][5] mostly on train tracks and highway walls. "Eltono focused mainly on the railway lines to the northwest of the city, painting in the traditional silver and black, block letter Parisian style."[6] He lived in Madrid from 1999 to 2010 (where he got his pseudonym[7]), then in Beijing[8] from 2010 to 2014 and since 2014 lives in the south of France.[9] In 1999, while living in Madrid, he started painting abstract symbols with tape and acrylic paint.[10] "It was then that he developed the colorful geometric box patterns for which he is now known."[11] "As Eltono himself suggested, his move away from traditional graffiti was produced so as to find a harmony with both the material and the social body of the city (integrating both its architectonic and societal elements in a more consensual manner)."[12] "Eltono also rejects conventional letterforms in favor of a minimalism device with which to negotiate space."[13]

Eltono
Born1975 (age 44–45)
Paris
NationalityFrench
Known forPublic art, Abstract graffiti, Street art, Urban art, Graffiti
Websitewww.eltono.com
Eltono, France 2014
Eltono, Xishuangbanna, China 2013
Eltono, Caochangdi, Beijing, China 2012
Eltono, Caochangdi, Beijing, China 2012
Eltono, French Embassy in Cambodia 2015
Eltono, Katowice, Poland 2013
Eltono, Utrecht, NL 2012
Eltono, Bridge Park 1, Dumbo, NY 2013

Eltono's work is mainly influenced by the urban environment and questions the limits between public and private space.[14] He uses the term "public space artist" to describe his practice.[15] When showing his work in galleries and museums, he focuses on finding a coherent way to show street art in private spaces.[16] "[Eltono's] career in both the street and the galleries [], is an example of a certain ethic of sustained work, oblivious to everything, which creates its own parameters and builds its own audience."[17]

He has collaborated with artists such as MOMO (artist), Nuria Mora (http://nuriamora.com/), Luce and is part of Equipo Plástico art collective (alongside Nuria Mora, Nano4814 and Sixeart) and Noviciado9 (alongside 3ttman, Remed, Spok, Nano4814 and Luciano Suarez).

Solo exhibitions (selection)
  • 11/2015: Lugares Comunes, Set Espai d’Art, Valencia, Spain
  • 10/2015: Aléas, Delimbo, Seville, Spain
  • 06/2015: Incontrôlables, Instituto Cervantes de Paris, Paris, France
  • 03/2014: Amalgama, Slowtrack, Madrid, Spain
  • 07/2012: Deambular, Artium Museum, Vitoria, Spain
  • 06/2012: 1/1, C-Space gallery, Caochangdi, Beijing, China
  • 10/2011: Eredu, SC Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
  • 05/2010: Retícula, Delimbo Gallery, Seville, Spain
  • 01/2009: Coriandoli, Cripta747, Turin, Italy
  • 01/2009: Pubblico, ROJO®artspace, Milan, Italy
  • 09/2008: PLAF – Autonomous Mechanisms, New York, U.S.A.
  • 07/2008: Bermellón, ROJO®artspace, Barcelona, Spain
  • 06/2008: Astillas, La Culpable, Lima, Peru
  • 10/2007: Eltono at ART, Monterrey, Mexico
  • 11/2006: Eigenkunstruktion, Artitude, Berlin, Germany
  • 01/2006: (x, y, z), Vacío9, Madrid, Spain
  • 10/2002: Complémentaires, Vacío 9, Madrid, Spain

Collective shows (selection)
  • 07/2015: Arqueologia Prohibida, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
  • 04/2015: Oxymores, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France
  • 01/2015: Mapping The City, Somerset House, London, U.K.
  • 09/2014: Artmossphere Biennial, Moscow, Russia
  • 08/2013: Wooster Collective 10th Anniversary Show, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
  • 09/2012: Biennale d’Art Contemporain du Havre, Le Havre, France
  • 02/2010: Murals, Fundación Miró, Barcelona, Spain
  • 05/2009: Observatori 2009, Valencia, Spain
  • 05/2008: Street Art, Tate Modern Museum, London, U.K.
  • 03/2008: Nomadaz, Scion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • 01/2007: Privé Och Público, Göteborg, Sweden
  • 09/2006: Pintura Mutante, Marco Museum, Vigo, Spain
  • 01/2006: 1st Art Biennial Foundation ONCE, Madrid, Spain
  • 09/2003: Ill Communication, Urbis Museum, Manchester, U.K.
  • 09/2002: Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K.
  • 06/2002: Coded Language, Atlanta, U.S.A.

Notes
  1. Schacter, Rafael (2013). The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN 0300199422.
  2. Eltono (2012). Line and Surface. Stickit. p. 8. ISBN 9789081841801.
  3. Hundertmark, Christian (2006). The Art of Rebellion 2 World of Urban Art Activism. Publikat. p. 78. ISBN 9783980990943.
  4. "Le Guide de l'Art Comtemporain Urbain". Graffiti Art Magazine. Hors-serie: 88. 2013.
  5. Schacter, Rafael (2013). The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN 0300199422.
  6. Schacter, Rafael (2013). The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN 0300199422.
  7. Schacter, Rafael (2013). The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN 0300199422.
  8. Geometry Makes me Happy. Index Book. 2013. p. 160. ISBN 9788415308393.
  9. "Information". Eltono.com. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  10. Briggs, Richard. "Eltono – navigator-commentator". Remap. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  11. Miranda, Carolina A. "Beyond Graffiti". Artnews. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  12. Schacter, Rafael (2014). Ornament & Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the parergon. Ashgate. p. 85. ISBN 9781472409980.
  13. Brook, Richard; Dunn, Nick (2011). Urban Maps, Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City. Ashgate. p. 165. ISBN 9780754676577.
  14. "Incontrôlables. Eltono". Instituto Cervantes Paris. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  15. Brook, Richard; Dunn, Nick (2011). Urban Maps, Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City. Ashgate. p. 162. ISBN 9780754676577.
  16. Geometry Makes me Happy. Index Book. 2013. p. 160. ISBN 9788415308393.
  17. Abarca, Javier (2012). Line and Surface. Stickit. p. 7. ISBN 9789081841801.

Bibliography
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  • The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, Rafael Schacter, Yale University Press (U.S.A.) - ISBN 9780300199420
  • Line and Surface, Monographic book, Stickit (N.L.) - ISBN 9789081841801
  • Urban Maps, Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City, Richard Brook and Nick Dunn, Ashgate (U.K.) - ISBN 9780754676577
  • We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project, Workhorse and PAC, Rizzoli (U.S.A.) - ISBN 9780789324948
  • Trespass, Taschen (U.S.A.) - ISBN 9783836509640
  • Durch die Augen in den Sinn, Galerie Konkret (Germany) - ISBN 978-3940418401
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  • Abstract Graffiti, Cedar Lewisohn, Merrell Publishers - ISBN 1858945267
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  • Bar Tom Cruise, Monographic book, Ediciones Rojo (Spain) - ISBN 9788461113996
  • The Art of Rebellion II (Germany) - ISBN 9783980990943
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