_Actu – Eltono

Modo n.°60

Discothèque municipale
Diakene Ouloff, Casamance
Senegal, December 2024

I was invited by the Casamance Centre Culturel and Ekol Senegal to design a mural painting program in the village of Diakene Ouloff. The focus of the workshop was on integrating mural paintings into their surroundings—both architectural and social.

Ten participants, mostly from Spain, signed up for the one week program. We spent the first four days of the workshop exploring the area to find inspiration in order to design a mural that would resonate with its environment. After days of observation and note-taking, we decided to focus on everyday objects. Their shapes are simple and functional, and everyone have them in their house, which perfectly aligned with our concept. Using these forms, we then worked on selecting a color palette that harmonized with the surroundings. To finalize the design, we created a simple generative process that randomly determined which shape and color would be painted in each cell of the wall. Once we started painting, villagers passing by spontaneously stopped to paint shapes with us.

Big thanks to Mariana, Xabi, Lamine, Bamoussa, Endaye, Boy, Bea, Amadou, Elena and her family, Pana, Salva and Lucas.

To the incredible participants (in alphabetical order): Ana, Cris, Cris, Lea, Marcel, Marina, Mario, Sierra, Tess, and Vera.

And, of course, to everyone in the village of Diakène for their kindness, warmth, and gratitude for the mural.

https://casamance.cc (@c.casamance)
https://www.ekolsenegal.org (@ekolsenegal)

Running With Rocks

Residency
Moulinage de Chirols, France
July 2024

Engraving experiment with rocks and movement made during the Encrages Art Residency in Chirols, France in July 2024.

Video images by Nelio.
Thanks to Nelio, Laïla, Ben, and everyone at the Moulinage de Chirols.

Modo n.º59

Generative Painting
Meudon Skatepark, France
July 2024

Project commissioned by Hangar Y as part of the “TOUS EN PISTES!” program for the Cultural Olympiad. Project supported by the city of Meudon, La Métropolitaine, in collaboration with the Réseau TRAM and with the support of Les Amis du Hangar Y. Twenty young people participated in the project thanks to the involvement of the Meudon-la-Forêt day camps.

Thanks to the Paris Skate Culture association for the demonstration on the inauguration day and to the municipal employees for the logistics during the project.

Thanks to Pierre-Loup, Martin, Virginie, Jean-Michel Crovesi, Grazia, and the entire Hangar Y team and the municipal team of Meudon.

MOD6_ORG/MC

Interior wall painting. Commission for a private collector, France, August 2023.

Varsi Residency

Varsi Art Lab, Rome, Italy
June 2023

During the two-week residency, with the support of 56Fili, I had the opportunity to explore the use of the screen printing technique, disrupting its conventional patterns and employing it as an extension of my artistic and aesthetic research.

The methodology applied to my generative art projects (Modo, Eltonolab, etc.) was consequently implemented in the productions of this residency. In a delicate balance between rules and chance, a new collection of screen-printed works emerged, breaking away from the typical series norms in favor of uniqueness.

I have created three new collections:

Strappato, a work of layering screen-printed and torn papers, a series of 8 unique pieces measuring 126 x 77 cm, numbered, mounted on wood, and 2 artist proofs on paper.
Otto, a series of 8 unique pieces measuring 100 x 70 cm, numbered, and 8 artist proofs.
Magari, a series of 25 unique pieces measuring 70 x 50 cm and 11 artist proofs.

The works are available here: galleriavarsi.it/artists/eltono

Strappato :

Otto :

Magari :

Photos: Ornella Mercier (@ornella.mercier)

1, 2, 3, couleurs

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
October 2023

As part of its actions for inclusion and diversification of its audiences, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille opened a free space for children aged 0 to 6 in the heart of its atrium in the fall of 2023, in partnership with the art initiation center Mille Formes from Clermont-Ferrand. The idea is to provide young children with their first multisensory artistic experience centered around shapes and colors through contemporary artworks.

Alongside Claude Como, I was invited to present my Espaces Manipulables (Manipulable Spaces) project, which was developed in 2022 in collaboration with the art initiation center Mille Formes. Additionally, I was asked to paint the exterior wall of the exhibition space in the museum’s atrium. I executed the generative painting Modo n.°55 in seven days.

Modo n.°55 generative mural painting:

Espaces Manipulables, installation:

“1, 2, 3 couleurs” is a project conceived and supported by the Mediation and Audience Engagement department of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille / City of Lille. It received sponsorship from Rigolo Comme La Vie in collaboration with the We Act for Kids Fond’actions, as well as in-kind sponsorship from Unikalo.

Photos: Eltono

Modo n.º52

Generative mural painting
Paris La Défense, France
September 2022

Project commissioned by Art Entreprise for Paris La Défense and QPark.

Intervention inside the elevator’s shaft:

Thanks to Arsène, Ulysse, Elie and Mohamed and his crew.

Espaces Manipulables

Mille Formes Art Center
23 Rue Fontgieve, Clermont-Ferrand, France
April 2022

Mille Formes is an art initiation center for very young public (0 to 6 years old). It was conceived by the city of Clermont-Ferrand in partnership with the Centre Pompidou.

“Espaces Manipulables” (manipulable spaces) is a set of three interactive and immersive installations which goal is to invite the visitors to take part in the evolution of the artworks around them. A creative immersion that goes in contradiction to the sacralisation of the artwork and that, on the contrary, invites the public to touch, move and experiment with the objects forming the art. Thus making the visitor being art of the artwork and able to observe the results and discover the existing interactions between shapes, colors and space.