Eltono
The city's invisible geometry
Trained in Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Stillo Noir began her career in visual communication before turning fully to illustration and mural art. Her work has evolved from graphic design toward a more experimental language, where patterns and abstract forms dialogue with the urban environment. She has developed projects in various formats, from interventions in public spaces to collaborations with brands and festivals, establishing herself as a versatile creator with an unmistakable visual identity.
Her work stems from a clear premise: capturing the hidden geometry in the everyday. Inspired by repeating patterns, city textures, and elements that often go unnoticed—such as vegetation or manhole covers—Stillo Noir translates reality into a play of lines and black-and-white contrasts. Her vision reinterprets the urban landscape as a vast tapestry of constantly transforming shapes, exploring the relationship between space, rhythm, and visual balance.
The harmony of chance
Eltono is a French artist whose career is deeply linked to urban space.
During his student years in Madrid, he began creating street interventions and discovered something
that would define his entire body of work: while other artists lamented that their pieces eroded,
disappeared, or were covered by new layers of paint, he found a form of beauty in that
uncertainty. Not knowing what would remain of a work when seeing it again
became part of the creative process for him. That experience taught him to understand the
city not as a neutral backdrop, but as a living agent capable of transforming the work
over time.
Artistic manifesto
His work is built on the balance between system and chance. Using rules, routes, or
generative programs, Eltono creates geometric compositions open to variation and the
unexpected. As he himself points out, generative art should not be confused with
artificial intelligence: it is based on creating a system of rules or parameters that allows for the generation of
variations within a framework defined by the artist. It can be born from a computer
program, but also from a mechanism as simple as rolling a die and associating each
result with a shape, a direction, or a gesture. Authorship remains with the human eye
that designs the system, accepts the accident, and recognizes a poetic possibility within it.
The project at BYPILLOW The Citadel (Madrid)
At BYPILLOW The Citadel, Eltono presents eleven pieces from his EQVILIBRIVM series,
developed through generative art and reinterpreted in dialogue with the hotel’s
interiors. His geometric forms, with an almost architectural resonance, transform the spaces
into a symbolic city within another city: The Citadel, in the heart of Madrid. The
result possesses an almost constructivist strength, where each piece seems to function as a
blueprint, structure, or urban fragment.
The intervention also serves as a tribute to his time in Madrid. Many of the
works he created on the streets back then have disappeared or survive only as hidden
traces among the city’s layers. Bringing his work together in the hotel now means
symbolically returning his art to Madrid and reactivating the bond with a city that was decisive in his
career.
The collaboration between Eltono and BYPILLOW The Citadel offers an experience where order
and spontaneity coexist in balance. Each work invites us to look at the city through a different logic:
as a living, changing, and unpredictable system, where even what disappears leaves a mark.
