Magda Danysz Books

This richly illustrated reference work on street art presents artists, trends, techniques, practice settings and current debates around the subject.

Dynamic Phenomena is the catalogue of the exhibition by the same name that took place at the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris in March, 24th 2018. The book is a collection of more than 100 images and two critical texts that describes the style and the techniques of the young Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone. Felipe Pantone's work is at the cutting edge of street art. Straddling conventional graffiti, typography and abstraction, his work fuses bold elements of graphic design with highly evolved geometric shapes to create an ultramodern aesthetic that complements and reacts with the stark modernity of our cityscapes. Pantone explores the subversive potential of undermining artistic, scientific and electronic languages by practicing hybridization, betting on impurity and the contagion of typographical, figurative and abstract media. Dynamism and transformation are the vehicles that Felipe Pantone utilizes to describe the strong sense of self-awareness and his connection with our time. He affirms " The most beautiful thing in art is not the finished piece, but the path to the result: the problems you face, the quest for solutions, and the unknown factors. The mysteries and the street allows me to discover and appreciate this process better.

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language? How has its production, which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space, invaded galleries, bringing with it real popularity for some artists? These are some of the questions that Magda Danysz, a gallery owner and recognized expert on street art, answers with an easily comprehensible and entertaining style in this unique, richly illustrated anthology. This volume retraces the history of the genre from its beginnings in the mid-1970s to the current issues that surround it today. This historical journey is dotted with portraits of the big international names from the field and dives deep into one of the major currents of contemporary art.