Biography
Jonathan re-creates enigmatic surfaces as if they were vibrant patterns throbbing between figurative reality and abstract drift. The matrix is flat in style and aptitude, with clean brush strokes and sharply bold outlines which lend definition to the bright colours. The result has an immediate impact with subsequent semantic ambiguity. Pannacciò creates a landscape of the mind’s chemistry, a synthesis wherein ideas are formalized through shape and sound. The shapes have an inner pulse of their own and appear to move like magnified details of a miniature, organic landscape which is transformed into a realistic, ordinary geography, both symbolic and perceivable. Confirmation of an uncontrollable dynamism between the brain and the external world. (Gianluca Marziani)
Jonathan Ted Pannacciò was born in Rome 11April 1977. He graduated in scenography from the Roma Academy of Fine Arts and later completed his Masters degree in Animated Video at IED (European Institute of Design) in Rome.
His multimedia projects have been exhibited at numerous art festivals, on TV and in publicity. Never relinquishing his passion for painting, since 2000 he has participated in personal and collective exhibitions, starting from the most underground in the capital to street art and the neo-pop.
In 2006, Jonathan was drawn to the growing American trend of Pop surrealism and became one of the founders of the first galleries in Rome dedicated solely to current.
In 2005 together with the artist Emiliano Zelada he also founded the parallel project entitled “Mag-nesia”, presenting audio-visual performances where digital and material merges in a single alchemy of images and sounds.
