Bruno Peinado

[imomus]

The Palais de Tokyo is the Paris art Ikea: design and quality, lots of colour, lots of space, a chance for young designers to make their 'collection', a nice cafe, an area near the checkout where you can buy small trinkets for the home, and a place with catalogues themed around lifestyle (the bookstore).

This is the current show, by Bruno Peinado. Stretched around the P de T's curved gallery the show looks like a big graphic design display, with a Mediterranean-Californian brash freshness, a pop art look which, on closer inspection, is about the politically incorrect (little black baby sits next to a Walt Disney logo), piracy (the huge 'unavailable due to copyright restrictions' placard), flatness, eclecticism and colour (some nice drippy lettering in various styles), Wim Delvoye-like jokes (a mirrorball cement mixer), and sensual immediacy (some big wind machines that turn on when you approach them). There are cars and motorbikes strewn around the space, and even a wall of drawings. It's the 'anything goes' approach which makes the show look like a big attractive catalogue, just like Ikea's. I flip flop through it for pleasure, relieved that, unlike the real Ikea, it's almost empty, and you don't really have to buy anything (although I'm tempted by the Nipponia Nippon issue of Plus 81 magazine in the bookstore, it's too dear at 19 euros; I'll get it in Tokyo next week).

Comments

[saneprof.livejournal.com]

Well, that's defnitely one to add to my list of places to visit when I'm in Paris the weekend after next. Thank you!

[dorontheos.livejournal.com]

that's where aphex twin played live a few weeks ago



and also the chicksonspeed, among a few other hype'n'roll bands



(:

[(Anonymous)]

hype 'n' roll is exactly the right term for that kind of stuff...

Antonin

[junkerr.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen some of Banksy's work?
its rather brilliant.

[bifteck.livejournal.com]

I agree. A lot of it is quite good and clever without being too clever.

[sylvia101.livejournal.com]

i like the broken skateboard. will the show travel do you think? i would love to see it at the MCA in Chicago.

<i>Momus Quarterly</i>

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

What the world most needs in times like these is a quarterly, A4 sized Momus magazine. To be included with each issue: a colored flexidisc recording featuring the latest demos for next year's album, stickers and diecut vinyl designs and illustrations (perhaps samples of various artworks spied in other lands), interviews with previously obscure musicians and fine artists from around the globe, and of course the photography and travelogue writing of Momus. Perhaps even a centerfold poster of an interesting landscape.

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[xyzedd.livejournal.com]

And lots of interesting letters to the editor, too!

[space-blues.livejournal.com]

that show looks fantastic, it has just the right amount of visuals to stimulate without overwhelming the audience, and i love the pop feel of it. we don't get exhibits that interesting where i live at all, its a shame.

[mykwud.livejournal.com]

Now, will I be the only one in this commentfield most-impressed by the Barbabeau standee?