Bruno Peinado

Born in 1970 in Montpellier, France

 

The impressive number of works created by Bruno Peinado since 2000 can be interpreted as a sudden eruption bursting forth after thirty years of a collective subconscious encountering a personal imagination (and vice versa). The result : a « chaos-world », to use the words of Martinique’s poet Edouard Glissant. This « archipelago thinking » together with sampling as practised in music gives Peinado the means with which to joyfully blow up the world, whereby his aim is to « make it more complex again ». Using mechanisms of inversion and visual and linguistic « approximations » (among these the irresistible works Lost-it note and Wild Disney, 2003) Peinado energetically confronts the flood of images that inundates our present-day existence and our memories, subjecting them to a uniquely relentless process of mental « infusion » that triggers oblivion, bewilderment, and doubt. Following the lead of Low Revolution 3, Peinado’s work has been focused on « mutating » installation that combine drawing, painting, sculpture, ready-mades, and items of furnishing (carpeting, furniture…). The visual attraction of the whole places symbols that hold great evocative power in the foreground, such as the Afro-Michelin Man (Bibendum) with one fist raised (The Big One World, 2000), which quickly became an emblem of « complex post colonialist multiculturalism without exoticism ». As the apostle of constant movement together with its natural corollary, the pause (« Perpetuum mobile », 2004), Peinado pursues the strategy of the Trojan Horse. Thus the monumental version of this horse that he created in 2004 (Ride Like Lightning, Counter Revolution Counter) was completely covered with the most effective of all disguises : the mirror.

Stéphane Corréard, ART NOW, Taschen, 2005. Traduction Sean Gallagher, Berlin



BRUNO PEINADO, SANS TITRE, STILLDANCINGONJOHNWAYNE'SHEAD, 2008High-pressure water jet cut dibond aluminum, neon, timer ; size variable