For L.F.D.A. 02.

Bruno Peinado’s work occupies a space at the exact centre of the White Geology, and the nave of the Grand Palais itself. Glimpsed from a distance, voluminous and shining, down the narrow passage that leads us to the interior of the exhibition, our gaze is drawn to this biomorphic structure that breathes and reflects its surroundings like a mirror. Untitled, Silence is Sexy – first shown by the artist in 2004, in the glass atrium of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris – is a ball that deflates and inflates to a distinctive rhythm. Its title, or rather its subtitle, refers to an album of the same name by the German experimental group Einstürzende Neubauten, released in 2000.

Its minimalist, impenetrable form is both organic and sensual, incorporating and deforming the real world around it. Untitled, Silence is Sexy is a highly representative piece, characterising the work of this architect of “non-violent resistance”, reflecting his taste for hybridisation, the distortion and fusion of styles and cultural references, and his penchant for wordplay. Untitled, Silence is Sexy is a conceptual work, a highly significative sign, a concentrated blend of images and meaning, a sentient presence, a sculpture that involves the spectator in an ephemeral experience.
[V.Th.]

Agenda

Vendredi 8 mai
	17h00 Signature de « Me myself and I » par Bruno Peinado, livre d’artiste coédité par BlackJack et les éditions Loevenbruck

Bruno Peinado

Bruno Peinado builds his work out of the cultural products of the modern world. Major works of great painting, from modernism to the avant-garde and industrial objects, trademarks, logos or advertising slogans, are appropriated and diverted from their original purpose without distinguishing among them, often accompanied with long, playful and revealing subtitles. The anti-copyright campaign or the putting into question of the idea of innovation, are so many strategies of resistance that Peinado deliberately puts in place, to impose the simplification of the world that freezes its meaning in place.  [V. Th.]

Bruno Peinado proposes in one of his installations an expression of his art of transformation, of change in scale and spectacular visual effects: a monumental sphere inhabited by a breath.

Bruno Peinado was born in 1970 in Montpellier.
He lives and works in Douamenez and New York (USA).

Bruno Peinado
View from the exhibition Perpetuum Mobile, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004

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