2012-09-24 — /travelprnews.com/ — Since 10 September, La Première customers have been able to discover exclusive creations and works of art by JonOne, an American Street Artist at the La Première lounge in Terminal 2E at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and on board Air France long-haul flights.
Exclusive works or art by JonOne: a blue LED sculpture and a 1.50 metre-long fibreglass piece of graffiti art are being exhibited up to the end of December 2012 in the La Première lounge at Paris-Charles de Gaulle. On board, in the La Première cabin, JonOne has designed the new menu and wine list covers offered by the crew at mealtimes.
This new collaboration enables La Première passengers to discover or rediscover a graffiti artist and brings an element of surprise and emotion to the unique pleasure of a flight in the La Première cabin.
Born in 1963 in New York, originally from the Dominican Republic, this freestyle artist describes himself as “an abstract expressionist graffiti painter”. He had already designed the cover of the December 2011 edition of the Air France Magazine while attending the tribute to Graffiti exhibition “Born in the Streets” at the Cartier Foundation.
For decades, Air France has developed close links with the wider art world and has established itself as a resolutely contemporary airline. Air France seeks to defend a certain avant-garde attitude and presents unusual and surprising artists and creations to its customers.
These works of art by JonOne come in the wake of exhibitions by other world-famous contemporary artists. Creations of Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, David Mach from the Jérôme Gallery in Noirmont, among others, have already been exhibited in this “house” of more than 1,000 square metres, designed by architect Didier Lefort.
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