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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.