Swimming Circles II

About the artist and the Edition

These colors! These gestures! The style of the abstract works of the French artist Franck Noto (*1980 in Montpellier) leaves no doubt that they are deeply rooted in graffiti art - Noto began spraying at the age of 15 and later traveled as ZEST with the TDM collective the world. His first studio works still showed letters and lettering. Later he developed his less clear-cut, universal formal language. It is sprayed in one burst. Pictures like the signed serigraph “Swimming Circles II” (2024) derive their energy from this momentum and spontaneity, which is transmitted directly to us. The different levels - here the delicate yet luminous color film on a deep black background - create an additional tension and an astonishing pull. Franck Noto has created a seductive and singular visual vocabulary that requires no rational decoding.

Franck Noto's works can be seen in international solo and group exhibitions. His artistic signature can also be seen in numerous murals in places around the world, including Montpellier, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Zaragoza and Heidelberg.