Bruno Peinado
12 Nov 2005 - 08 Jan 2006
Bruno Peinado
Silence Is Sexy
A satellite-project of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005
12th November 2005 – 8th January 2006
The French artist Bruno Peinado (born 1970) achieves in his work an amalgamation of the image world of Western pop culture with the aesthetics and content of diverse cultures. This results in a sampled, deterritorialised hybrid, which moves beyond copyright culture and the Western language of signs. This solo exhibition at the migros museum für gegenwartskunst is a satellite project of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005.
My logic is that of the combination, the world is crashed with images. My intention is to destroy purity.
Bruno Peinado
In Bruno Peinado’s work, drawing, wall painting, neon writing and sculpture are joined and merged into a condensed sign system. His work can be seen as a refusal of a dominant culture in order to fulfill the promise of equality for various image worlds. From this springs a poetic-chaotic world in which, as it were, labels, logos and oriental ornament are hot-wired, and the notion “culture jamming” attains its true meaning. Bruno Peinado resists today’s demand to create genuine image value that will only be conclusively incorporated as an absolute value in the commodity world. This is perfectly reflected in his sculpture Big One World (2000), a brown Michelin Man with the logotype “Big One World” on his chest.
In the exhibition Silence Is Sexy, which is named after the album and song title of the German experimental group Einstürzende Neubauten, Bruno Peinado uses a Minimalist strategy, first taken up in the pictorial art of the 1960s. The sculpture, which also bears the name Silence Is Sexy and forms the centre of the exhibition, features a reflecting textile ball. The textile exterior is inflated at intervals into a gleaming blazing balloon, and then immediately falls in on itself. Peinado’s sculpture, which can be seen as an interplay of “form” and “anti-form”, persiflates Minimal art’s rigid repertoire of forms and its inflexible material guidelines. The metamorphosis of this process is based on the song Silence Is Sexy, which records the noise of cigarette smoke being inhaled and exhaled. A second sculpture once resembled, in its original form, a Minimalist sculpture by John McCracken, but after hitting the floor, it lies as individual broken pieces – destroyed. The impeccable appearance of Minimalism is also broken in a brutal fashion. !INFORMATION! For further information please contact the curator of the museum, Heike Munder. The exhibition of Bruno Peinado is a co-production with the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005. Curators of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005: Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans.
For further information on the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005 please see: www.biennale-de-lyon.org
Silence Is Sexy
A satellite-project of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005
12th November 2005 – 8th January 2006
The French artist Bruno Peinado (born 1970) achieves in his work an amalgamation of the image world of Western pop culture with the aesthetics and content of diverse cultures. This results in a sampled, deterritorialised hybrid, which moves beyond copyright culture and the Western language of signs. This solo exhibition at the migros museum für gegenwartskunst is a satellite project of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005.
My logic is that of the combination, the world is crashed with images. My intention is to destroy purity.
Bruno Peinado
In Bruno Peinado’s work, drawing, wall painting, neon writing and sculpture are joined and merged into a condensed sign system. His work can be seen as a refusal of a dominant culture in order to fulfill the promise of equality for various image worlds. From this springs a poetic-chaotic world in which, as it were, labels, logos and oriental ornament are hot-wired, and the notion “culture jamming” attains its true meaning. Bruno Peinado resists today’s demand to create genuine image value that will only be conclusively incorporated as an absolute value in the commodity world. This is perfectly reflected in his sculpture Big One World (2000), a brown Michelin Man with the logotype “Big One World” on his chest.
In the exhibition Silence Is Sexy, which is named after the album and song title of the German experimental group Einstürzende Neubauten, Bruno Peinado uses a Minimalist strategy, first taken up in the pictorial art of the 1960s. The sculpture, which also bears the name Silence Is Sexy and forms the centre of the exhibition, features a reflecting textile ball. The textile exterior is inflated at intervals into a gleaming blazing balloon, and then immediately falls in on itself. Peinado’s sculpture, which can be seen as an interplay of “form” and “anti-form”, persiflates Minimal art’s rigid repertoire of forms and its inflexible material guidelines. The metamorphosis of this process is based on the song Silence Is Sexy, which records the noise of cigarette smoke being inhaled and exhaled. A second sculpture once resembled, in its original form, a Minimalist sculpture by John McCracken, but after hitting the floor, it lies as individual broken pieces – destroyed. The impeccable appearance of Minimalism is also broken in a brutal fashion. !INFORMATION! For further information please contact the curator of the museum, Heike Munder. The exhibition of Bruno Peinado is a co-production with the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005. Curators of the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005: Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans.
For further information on the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005 please see: www.biennale-de-lyon.org