Exhibition Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011
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Exhibition Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011
Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Press release Bruno Peinado’s work operates through a principle of contamination and cultural mix, melting influences and references in a way we could define as “democratic” and free from any constriction. The artist blurs the distinction between the so-called “high” culture, reserved to the elite, and a popular culture spread through communication means, cultural industry and advertizing; by doing so, he assembles eclectic elements coming from different t temporalities, liti cultural lt l andd disciplinary di i li fi ld fields. The title of this exhibition shows that even language is a means of hybridization for Peinado, an artistic matter he manipulates and distorts. Wild Angle plays with the idea of a broad and open point of view (“wide angle”, corresponding to a typology of photographic lens), juxtaposed with an unpredictable “wild” dimension that resists to domestication and moves away from the common schemes and models of representation. Some images integrate with the social sphere without their media, cultural and social impact being reconsidered critically. Peinado extracts and put them in contact with other references, references inviting the viewer to adopt another viewing angle. angle This tension can be perceived through the exhibited works; familiar signs and codes shock with alien objects, “made-up” by the artist till they become unrecognizable. Despite this, images can provoke a feeling of “déjà-vu”, like in the installation “Les Ambassadeurs”. The work takes up a model of representation considered as an exercise of mastery and sophistication during Renaissance: the anamorphosis. It applies it, ironically, to a very common and almost trivial sign of our time, the smiley. Humor and irony have indeed a fundamental site in Peinado Peinado’ss work, work as devices used to mediate the inevitable clash between diverse cultures and ideals, which is characteristic of our globalized world. In the sculpture “Kinky Afro”, the raised black fist (symbol, among others, of the Black Panthers’ struggle) belongs in an ironic way to a character of comics, very likely Mickey Mouse, which was often denounced as a symbol of U.S imperialism. The installation “Sans titre- I melt with you” displays national flags, objects that usually crystallize identities and patriotic feelings. The flags are declined in eleven versions fading gradually, up to total white. Erasure does not appear here as a negative fact, but as the first condition to receive other influences and melt with them. In accordance with this gamble on hybrid cultural forms that resonate with his own half-blood roots, the artist pays tribute to a literary and political trend that brought in one of the most important social and political transformations of the last century: the “Négritude”, initiated in the second half of the 20th century. Peinado diverts a classical sculpture of Hermes, protecting god of the travelers and poets. Classical Greek sculpture is seen as a very significant step into occidental culture; in Peinado’s work, it is hijacked by other identities, black and Creole, like those of poets Aimé Césaire and Edouard Glissant, eulogists of a multi-sourced culture, cosmopolite, mobile and open. p Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Images Bruno Peinado, Les Ambassadeurs, 2010 Bruno Peinado, Sans Titre, Smiley RVB, 2011 Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Images Bruno Peinado, Les trois princes de Serendip, 2011 Bruno Peinado, Kinky Afro, 2010 Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Bruno Peinado Wild Angle May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Selected biography g p y Bruno Peinado - 1971, Lives and works in Douarnenez (France) Solo shows (selection): 2011 Wild Angle, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. All Tomorrow Parties, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Viena, Austria. French but Fresh, Galeria Loevenbruck, Paris, France. 2010 Casino Incaos, Baroque Courtoisie, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg. 2009 Purple Brain - Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear, 21 Rozendaal Museum, Enschede, The Netherlands. Masses, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. Big Bang, Parker Box, New York, USA. 2008 ME, MYSELF AND I (Edition Loevenbruck, Paris), ArtistBook International, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 2007 Blisfully, ADN Galería, Galería Barcelona, Barcelona Spain. Spain Radical Buissonance, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Loire Carquefou, Carquefou France. France 2006 The Endeless Winter, Gallerie Continua, San Gimignano, Italy. 2005 Why Style?, comisariado por M.O.Wahler, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Nueva York , USA. Silence is sexy, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. Group shows (selection): 2011 A Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Çiragan Palace Kempinsky Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Les trois princes de Serendip, la fontaine moussue, Centre d'Art Contemporain d’Istres, France. 2010 De Leur Temps 3, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France. Le Sourire du Chat (Opus 1), FRAC des Pays-de-la-Loire / Le Hangar à Bananes, N Nantes, F France. N New: Now N New N Works W k New N Space S , Proje4L P j 4L / Elgiz El i Museum M off Contemporary C A Istanbul, Art, I b l Turkey. T k Buy-Sellf B S llf // Retour vers le Futur, CAPC – Museé d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France. 2009 Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad, Sala de Exposiciones La Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain. Vraoum!, La Maison Rouge, Paris, Francie. La Force de l'Art 02, Grand Palais, Paris, France.The Invisible Labyrinth + FRAC Île-de-France, Théatre National de Chaillot, Paris, France. 2008 Esculturismo, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain. Retour sur Terre!, Stade de France, St Denis La Plaine, France. La collection Lambert en Avignon voyage à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy. Medio Dia / Media Noche, MACRO, Rosario, Argentina. 2007 Medio Dia / Media Noche, Centro Cultural de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 2007, Lyon, France. De leur temps (2), art Contemporain et collections privées, Grenoble, France. Nuevos Horizontes, Artistas Contemporáneos de Francia, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. DC Düsseldorf Contemporary, Messe Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Nouveauxs Horizons, La Centrale Electrique - European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brusselas, Belgium. A moitié carré, à moitié faux, Villa Arson, Nice, France. 2006 Prix Marcel Duchamp, FIAC 2006, Grand Palais, Paris, France. Biennale de Busán, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busán, South Corea. Icônes, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. Notre histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 2005 Senza Confine, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy. Experiencing Duration, Biennale d´Art Contemporain, Lyon, France. Just do it!, Lentos, Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.