Bruno Peinado's Composite Installations Critique Mass Culture
Bruno Peinado's installations combine drawings, sculptures, videos, sounds, and paintings on various supports, drawing primarily from popular culture. The reappropriation of objects from cultural products serves as a guiding thread, with distorted copying as a dominant motif. This approach prompts reflection on copyright, mass culture, commodification, and the definition of an artwork when it is diverted and enters a process of 'creolization': popular culture no longer opposes the recognized artist, the museum piece to recycling, or secular tradition to acculturated elements. The work was featured in artpress in February 2008.
Key facts
- Bruno Peinado creates composite installations mixing drawings, sculptures, videos, sounds, and paintings.
- His work references popular culture and reappropriates objects from cultural products.
- Distorted copying is a dominant motif in his work.
- The work reflects on copyright, mass culture, commodification, and the definition of art.
- Peinado's practice involves a process of 'creolization' where popular culture and high art merge.
- The article was published in artpress in February 2008.
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Artists
- Bruno Peinado
Institutions
- artpress
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