Pasta Oner

Pasta Oner (*1979)

PASTA IS THE MICHELANGELO OF THE 21st CENTURY

The story is as colorful as the comic book characters devoured by a whole generation of progressive and promising artists determined to leave a mark, a personal emblem on the vibrant canvas of a metropolis. The taste of danger and the pressure of the moment that accompany graffiti make for a sort of adventure. Today, street art legends like Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring are hailed as pioneers. Graffiti has become an artistic style in its own right, a philosophical poem or at least a lifestyle. An emblem gave rise to a universal script of an unmistakable cultural paradigm. They create anonymously, they never reveal their identity, they take pleasure in transgressing boundaries, and because they have roots in the subculture, they provoke the society and the art market. They can project their artistic vision into surprisingly political gestures by which they affirm their alignment with the avant-garde. Being on the outside (here we don’t mean spray-painting the outside of a railway car) and being established are not opposites.

Thanks to the lessons of Andy Warhol, we know that everything can be replicated, reproduced, but also made unique, and ...

School of Graphic Art in Prague

Solo exhibitions

2013
Man on Fire, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague

Recall, Gallery of Art (GAVU), Cheb

2011
Peep show, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague


Group exhibitions

2014
Paper obsessed + 2, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague

2013
7 years of Trafačka, Trafo Gallery, Prague

Sexplicit, Art Salon S, Prague

Noche en blanco, Lima, Peru

2012
Shoot When You Can, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague

Ruka Ruku Myje (One hand washes the other), Aula Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT, Brno

Městem posedlí (Stuck on the City), Municipal Gallery – City Library, Prague

Czech Open 2012, Czech cultural season, London

Art Prague 2012, exposition of The Chemistry Gallery, Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague

MAB – Dialogos da resistencia, Museu Nacional Honestino Guimarães, Brazil

2011
Can You Dig It?, Prague House, Brussels, Belgium

Boutique, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague

Metropolis – Candy Shop, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague


2010
Art Prague 2010, exposition of the Chemistry Gallery, Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague

Corners, World Expo 2010 – a show in conjunction with the exhibition at the national pavilion of the Czech Republic, Source – concept store and gallery, Shanghai, China

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