Bruno Peinado

Bruno Peinado draws from a vast repertoire of forms, symbols and other icons to free himself of all principles of purity. His works are fragments of landscapes that tangle and slide. If at first sight they might remind one of the aesthetics and intent of pop art of the 1960s, through their confusion of high and low culture in the context of visual arts, Bruno Peinado’s work is set in quite a different scene. Reproducing, deconstructing, reworking, starting with detail, Bruno Peinado’s method of working are those of “globalised baroque” (in the words of Édouard Glissant), to be understood as an experiment that is at the same time personal and collective. He does not play the old game of contrasts and clashes, but above all mirrors a culture of blending that handles various sources in a manner similar to musical remixes. Here the image of a video test card, reduced in the mill of minimalism, is to be painted straight onto a wall. A moment frozen from amongst the flow of pictures, and a yardstick test in reception, the pattern, by being materialised and enlarged, takes on the value of a statement.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2005
 Swiss Institute, New York
 Parker’s Box, New York
 N Galerie, Barcelone
2004
 Galerie La Fabrica, Madrid
 Perpetuum Mobile, Palais de Tokyo, Paris *
 Blow Back, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
 Ride like lightning, counter revolution counter, cheval de troie, Nuit Blanche, Crédit municipal, Paris
 Silence is sexy, cour vitrée de l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, dans le cadre du parcours Saint-Germain, Paris
2003
 This is Hell, Diesel Gallery, New York *
 Influenza, Rainbow warriors, Museo Zauli, Faenza
 Kombinacao, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
 Good Stuff II, Luogo Pio’s Chapelle, Livourne
 Good Stuff II, Galleria Communale, Faenza *
 After Hate, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
 Low-thèque, La Box, Paris
2002
 Chic & underground, Parker’s Box Gallery, New York
 One Man Show, FIAC, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
 Good stuff 2, Galerie Continua, San Gimignano

Group exhibitions (selection)

2005
 Le Casino, Luxembourg
 Just do it ! Lentos, Kunstmuseum Linz, Autriche
2004
 Friez, Parker’s Box, New York
 Biennale de São Paulo, Parc Ibirapuera, São Paulo *
 Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris *
2003
 Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennial Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul
 Propaganda, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris *
 Floating Bowl, Attitudes Espace d’art contemporain, Genève
 Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Villa Arson, Nice *
 Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francfort-sur-le-Main
 Distant Shores, Parker’s Box Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
 Trésors publics, 20 ans des FRAC, Musée des beaux-Arts, Nantes *
 Extra, Swiss Institute, New York *
 Mursollaici, Centre culturel suisse, Paris
2002
 Voilà la France, CESAC, Caraglio
 Biennale de Montréal, Montréal
 Tigerland, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
 Listening to new voices, PS1 Museum, New York

*publication