Bruno Peinado

Born 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, SILENCE IS SEXY,, 2004-2009, Inflatable reflecting, structure, blower, with temporization, Diameter: 550 cm, View of the exhibition "La Force de l'Art", Grand Palais, Paris 2009.