JonOne summons up graffiti and lettering, memories of his New York years, to develop a freestyle calligraphy populated by colour-cuts and drippings that give his works all their vitality.

His explosive gestures capture the energy of the city. John Andrew Perello aka JonOne literally projects himself into his canvases, offering us luminous fragments of urbanity. The City of Light sparkles with a thousand lights.

Attending artistic happenings, particularly at Studio 54, JonOne rubbed shoulders with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.

He has this mad freedom within him, which he breathes into the whole world, as heir to these 2 adepts of the no-limit movement and to Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet.

Amazed by his work, we understand how Champollion must have felt when he read the Egyptian hieroglyphs with an open book, thanks to the rosary stone.

To take the time to contemplate such a work is to open your mind to a territory as vast as it is unknown. But at the end of this mental journey, there is this light that inevitably dazzles with its vital force.