KONGO X AIRBUS

For exhibition only


  • Artwork Description
    In 2021, Cyril Kongo shake up the typically conservative world of business-jet cabins. With a strong pioneering spirit and which perfectly complements the ACJ's team’s innovative mindset, Kongo has turned the extra-large biz-jet into a flying contemporary art gallery, thus, offering a never-done-before novel ambiance. Kongo’s bright and colorful artwork runs throughout the cabin, from the carpets to a conforter on the king-sized bed designs which brings the cabin design to next level of emotion. Notably the main lounge, which will be partly hand painted by Cyril Kongo, combining carefully chosen branded textures and fabrics, crafted to kindle the sumptuous comfort, space and luxury of your own private art gallery.

Cyril Kongo’s artworks is marked by his experience and his vision of life. After painting in the streets for more than 30 years and working so that graffiti can be perceived differently, this artist is now considered as a pioneer who understood how to break the codes and build something new through his contemporary and “avant-gardiste” point of view. His influences are multicultural, his level of excellence and his capacity to create new bridges between opposite worlds has forged his style and career.

 

 

Cyril Kongo has been able to associate his name with excellence, abundance and virtuosity. He comes from a marginalized environment which has been set aside of the institutionalized art industry but today this visionary artist is known internationally. His singular universe and his strong identity gave him the opportunity to collaborate with the most prestigious names of fashion such as Hermès, Chanel, Richard Mille but also with luxurious brands based on art and craftsmanship such as La Cornue, Pinel&Pinel, Atelier Victor, Daum,…