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With JonOne, street art conquers Palazzo Farnese

2021-10-23T09:35:48.734Z


"This was a street. I seem to see the people passing by, to smell the horses, the bread in the ovens, the latrine on the corner. Maybe there was also an old woman there begging for alms. (ANSA )


PALAZZO FARNESE - "This was a street. I seem to see the people passing by, to smell the horses, the bread in the ovens, the latrine on the corner. Maybe there was even an old woman begging for alms there. . And here, under the sun, he was, bent over this stone with his chisel. Tick, tick, tick. So these writings took shape. When I work, however, you hear the noise of the spray from the cans. there is a strong connection between his and my work. He was a true street artist. "


    It is from the most secret, and usually inaccessible, caverns of Palazzo Farnese that JonOne, one of the most famous international street artists, drew inspiration for Cippo 2.0, a new stage of the artistic enhancement program with which, since July, the French Embassy in Italy he will tell the story of the wonderful residence of the Farnese family in the four years of the long restoration underway on the facades and the roof. "A huge construction site - explains Ambassador Christian Masset - during which, however, we did not want an embassy 'closed for work', but a building 'open for work'. This is why we invited great artists to dialogue with the wonders we keep here. , creating new site specific works ".


    After the Ponte Farnese built by Olivier Grossete and the monumental Escape Point by JR, the protagonist is now the street artist and painter JonOne, born John Andrew Perello, Dominican origins, born in New York, now stable in Paris, who in the central courtyard he created a long palissade inspired by the cippus of 55 BC found in the basement, among the Roman mosaics of great knights and sea monsters. The Latin inscription, which meters above is reworked between shapes and bright colors in Flashe painting by JonOne, refers to the intervention of two of the most important magistrates in Rome, the censors, in charge, among other things, of the administration of public spaces and of the land heritage of the city.


    "Bringing together ancient and modern, through handwriting, urban writings is the very center of my artistic journey", he says, who has been working in Rome for a week now.


    "I know this city. I have come several times. And hopefully I will return to work at Palazzo Farnese again next spring - he anticipates - Here every element speaks of art, but it was not so much the antiquities that inspired me, but the people, the energy of the new generations that I met ".


    When he works, he says, "it's a bit like dancing. My school was the street. I witnessed how much talent exists outside traditional museums and institutions. For me this is not a 'job'. I do it. for me, to express myself. And to always look ahead ".


    World and innovative artist (a flight already awaits him for Paris, then he will be in Dubai and again in Miami), but this is not the first time that he has put his art in dialogue with the past.


    "I started working on the antique thanks to the antique dealer Jean Gismondi - he says - I was full of prejudices: 'working on the tables of Louis XIV? interest the new generations ". From the large palissade that now stands in front of the scaffolding of the courtyard at Palazzo Farnese, it is he who wants to guide down into the basement, where, for safety reasons, the public never goes down. "Each step is like going back in history," he says. Then he kneels in front of the stone and mimes the chisel work. "He was a real street artist - he imagines - His was public art. And it is very important that public art exists. Because it is art for everyone, not for the elites, but for the people who work,for the children, who pass by and can see it. And live it ". (ANSA).


Source: ansa

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