Bruno Peinado

Bruno Peinado was born in 1970, he lives and works in Douarnenez (FR)

Waiting for Bruno

From his early meticulously drawn spaces to his more recent overproduced volumes, Bruno Peinado’s practice is entirely held together by the clear line that runs throughout his work — like a broad contour of the world he seeks to outline in his candy-colored pieces. He cuts, traces, and projects icons that seem pulled from a button badge, suddenly and disturbingly asserting what once belonged to the realm of the accessory.

Peinado’s arrangements are far from harmless. Through a logic of graphic hybridity, he demonstrates the possible realization of a society in which symbolic universes intersect, where identities blend. All of this is made desirable by the aggressively appealing aspect of these forms, drawn from an exceptionally well-stocked imaginary drugstore.

But the forms sting, reflect in monochrome, dazzle, or turn their back on the viewer. Those who know Bruno Peinado understand that the work is likely a reflection of the man himself, whose motto might well be that once claimed by Pierre Desproges: one can indeed laugh about everything, but not with just anyone.

— Excerpt from Dorothée Dupuis, Text(e)s, Loevenbruck Editions, Paris, 2009

Bruno Peinado’s work is on display during the exhibition Quality Street, 1998 and Fictionary, 2000.