53/5 - Zestafon By Eltono

53/5 - Zestafon By Eltono
October 13 - 18th, 2013, Georgia

French artist Eltono (1975) started his street art career with the usual tools of the trade -spray paint cans. After ten years of bombing, his practice diverged as he evolved his artistic style using acrylic paints and tape to develop an abstract geometric language. He always improvises his forms and colors in situ to integrate within the existing balance. He also chooses neglected surfaces with the intention of reviving their dignity and making use of their aged textures and abandoned states.
This is the second time Eltono ran this random wall painting experiment. It was executed for the first time statically in Bari, Italy and was called 8 Linee attraverso 4 Punti.

For this second attempt to paint Ferro Alloys plant factory old wall in Zestafoni his painting expanded to the right. Each line was made of 4 segments passing through 5 randomly positioned points on a plane (1,6 x 2,8 m. vertically centered on the wall). Once the X and Y coordinates were generated, the 5 points were marked on the wall, joined together from 1 to 5 and the segments were painted with one of the 8 randomly selected colors. Then the plane was moved 2/3 of its length to the right and the next set of segments was generated. In four days Eltono and his team managed to paint 53 figures.