Solo show Zurich
John ‘JONONE’ Perello
09.09.2019 – 14.09.2019
PALMTREES AND ICE CREAM
Kolly Gallery is excited to present John ‚JonOne‘ Perello’s unique, multifaceted and personal paintings entitled Palm Trees and Ice Cream from September 9 to 14, 2019.
The works presented in the exhibition show the artist’s energetic, cryptic and polychrome canvases. Multiple layers and thick brushstrokes adorn his large-sized and explosive paintings. Profoundly rooted in the graffiti scene of the 1980ies he made excellent use of his obsession with tagging. What might appear as abstract lines, cryptic shapes or intentional drips of paint to the viewer, actually represent his own tag ‚JONONE‘, sometimes also in variations as ‚JONONE ROCK‘. At a closer look, letters and even his tag are recognizable. The regularity of repeating his tag over and over again, is not monotonous, in contrary, it is divers, complex and rich. Eventually the writing develops into an abstract pattern within the beauty of infinity.