Works at SEEN STUDIOS NYC PARIS Born in

Works at SEEN STUDIOS NYC PARIS Born in

About
Works at SEEN STUDIOS NYC PARIS
Born in 1977. Jonas Bournat a.k.a. SUN 7 lives and works in Paris.
SUN 7 is obviously a child of the amalgamation of words and images, poetry and colour, art and the streets.
In the early 1990s, he discovered New York tag culture. Spray can in hand, he took on the skin of walls in Paris
and New York, and moved on to performances and installations, not only in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, but also
in Shanghai, Hong-Kong and Djakarta.
He then started using canvases, signs and metal plaques. His register became permeated by multiple new
influences: action painting, Arabic calligraphy, Latino tattoos, but words and calligraphy remained dominant –
a mesh of words, a lace of letters, most often indecipherable but which when combined made portraits and
self–portraits. Obvious portraits and coded texts created a subtle play of appearance/disappearance, in which
everything related to calligraphy, glyphs and ideograms became as unreal as can be, nurturing a deep sense of
interest and mystery.
© Gilles De Bure - Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton - Paris (FR)
RihannAminata part 2”
Oil on canvas. 3,28ft x 3,28ft. (2012)
Inksight
Oil & Ink on steel . 3,28ft x 4,92ft (2012)
Silverwritingskull / Jako.R.I.P.
Oil & Ink on steel 4,92ft x 4,92ft (2011)
Saskiarlett
Oil on canvas. 3,28ft x 3,28ft. (2012)
Heartbeat
Oil & Ink on steel. 3,28ft x 4,92ft (2012)
Tefa
Oil & Ink on steel. 3,28ft x 4,92ft (2012)
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS & BIENNALES
2012 | MARRAKECH BIENNALE (MA)
2011 | LONDON ART FAIR, London (UK) – Represented by The French Art Studio, London (UK)
2010 | SHANGHAI World Expo, C1TY (CN)
Group Show with Les Nuits Sonores and Magda Danysz / Gallery 18
2010 | ANIMAL DREAM, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech (MA) – Group Show with L1ES, Sidhoum,
L’Atlas, MORCKY, Mourabiti, Alozie Onyrioha, YAZE, Tanc, OVNI
2009 | ART LONDON, London (UK) – Represented by The French Art Studio
SOLO & GROUP SHOWS
2013 | CATHERINE AHNELL Art Studio & Gallery – Residency
freerunning art corp.66 Grand Street #1 New York, NY 10013 (US)
E-mail: [email protected]
2012 | French Art Studio, London (UK) – Group Show with Jef Aerosol, Invader, Tanc, YZ,
Gwenael Salaun, L’Atlas, WK Interact
2012 | URBAN ART, Stade de France, Paris (FR) – Group show
2012 | GO SLOW, Bamako (ML)-Marrakech (MA)-Ibiza (SP)-Paris (FR) – Ongoing project
2012 | bYrdS, SEEN Studios and Charles Alazet, Paris (FR) – Duo show with YAZE
2011 | SUNBURST, Lorenzetti Gallery, Lyon (FR) – Tales From The Light Side
2010 | EFFACER LES TRACES, Musée des Invalides, Paris (FR) – Group Show with Gérard
Zlotykamien and Jean Faucheur on the fall of the Berlin Wall
2010 | KISS THE CITY, Skalitzers Gallery, Berlin (DE) – Group Show with L’Atlas, Tanc & Babou
2010 | CHROME DIARIES, Galerie L’Agence, Paris (FR) – Group Show with OENO, Lucas, Jonas, YAZE
2009 | NE DANS LA RUE, Fondation Cartier, Paris (FR) – Original painting design
2009 | ECRITURES SILENCIEUSES, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR) – Group Show
2009 | TAG AU GRAND PALAIS, Grand Palais, Paris (FR) – Group Show
2009 | SCRITTURE SILENZIOSE, Palazzo Dugnani, Milan (IT) – Group Show
2009 | THE SHOW, Galerie Joseph, Paris (FR) – Group Show with SEEN, COMET NYC, YAZE,
Katrin Fridriks, L’Atlas, L1ES
2009 | LAY DOWN THE REALITY, Galerie Moretti & Moretti, Paris (FR) – Group Show with
Guillaume ae, L’Atlas, Babou, Laurent Bolognini, Joseph Camara, Pascal Haudressy, Jencri,
L1ES, Anne-Laure Maison, David Mesguish, Eva Peel, Tanc, Teurk, YAZE
2007 | CUBE, ADIDAS™, Shanghai (CN) – Art Performance with L’Atlas, Tanc and Clyde Knowland
2007 | GRAFFOLOGY, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR) – Mural commission with Duster132
2006 | RUE AU GRAND PALAIS, Grand Palais, Paris (FR) – Group Show
2011 | SUNBURST, Lorenzetti Gallery, Lyon (FR)
2010 | C1TY, Shanghai World Expo (CN)
2009 | NE DANS LA RUE, Fondation Cartier X M.U.R., Paris (FR)
2009 | ECRITURES SILENCIEUSES, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR)
Artists participating in this exhibition curated by Hervé Mikaeloff
Claude Closky, Tracey Emin, Ni Haifeng, Jenny Holzer, Idris Khan, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Ernesto Neto, Giuseppe
Penone, Robin Rhode, Marco Nereo Rotelli,Charles Sandison, Lawrence Weiner, Guyton\Walker, and SUN 7
2009/2008 | CALIGRAMMES & SILVERWRITINGS
2008 | ACID ON MIRROR
2007 | GRAFFOLOGY, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
During Steve Parrino’s exhibition
Recent Publications & Press Releases
L’Espace culturel Louis Vuitton - Territoires de création contemporaine
Éditeur Actes Sud en coédition avec l’Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton
format: 376 pages, 500 colored illustrations
French edition
Published in October 2011
http://www.louisvuitton.fr/
Arabic Graffiti
Skull Style
By Pascal Zoghbi & Stone
format: 28,5 x 21cm, 200 full color pages
photographs: 325 photos & illustrations
English edition
ISBN Hardcover: 978-3-937946-26-9
fromheretofame.com/books/arabic.html
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Videos
Fondation Cartier: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa9hjp_sun-7-written-faces_creation
SINGHA Beer: http://vimeo.com/18257555
TF1: http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-20h/enquete-du-20h-de-la-rue-aux-galeries-d-art-7219612.html
LINKS
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