Pablo Reinoso (designer)

Pablo Reinoso (born 8 March 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine–French artist and designer who has been working in Paris since 1978.[1]

Pablo Reinoso
Pablo Reinoso
Born8 March 1955[1]
Buenos Aires
NationalityArgentine-French
Known forInstallations
Furniture design
Architecture
Notable workSpaghetti benches
Websitepabloreinoso.com
We Watch You Too bench in Millbank, London

Biography

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Pablo Reinoso was introduced to carpentry by his French grandfather. He made his first chair when he was six years old.[2] He went on to study Architecture in University of Buenos Aires and began a career in communications and design.[3]

Reinoso has lived and worked in Paris since 1978. He became known for his public installations and sculptures, created from traditional materials such as metal, stone and wood.[4] After 1995 he began to introduce a wider range of materials, such as cloth in his installations Respirantes, Persistantes and Contractantes.[5] In the late 1990s he broadened his work in a commercial direction to include the design of products, for example perfume bottles.[6] In 2003 he designed a new cup for the French Ligue de Football Professionnel.[4]

In 2012 Reinoso had his first Asian exhibition, at the Art Plural Gallery in Singapore, showing 15 sculptures.[3] That year he won the Konex Award from Argentina in design. Eleven of his works were shown in Macau as part of Le French May in 2013.[7] In 2020 Waddington Custot in London combined a solo digital exhibition with a presentation in the gallery.[8]

In 2022 Débordements, Reinoso's largest solo exhibition to date, was held at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Château de Chambord, France.[9][10]

The critic Patricia Avena Navarro described Reinoso as a "sensible artist, his work is informed by a complex sphere of relations that include the biographic due to their link with art history and the world of psychoanalysis, which announce the absolute triumph of the image."[4]

Reinoso lives in Malakoff, a suburb of Paris.[11]

Notable work

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  • Respirantes (1996), Persistantes (1998)[11][12] and Contractantes – cloth art installations
  • Rue Payenne Apartment, Paris – architectural renovation[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Pablo Reinoso ([n.d.]). Biography. pabloreinoso.com. Accessed September 2015.
  2. ^ Ong, Terry (19 January 2012). "Interview: Pablo Reinoso". I-S Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b Miller, Jessica (4 January 2012). "Between Art and Design". Centurion Magazine. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Navarro, Patricia Avena (1 December 2010). "Pablo Reinoso". Arte al Día. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  5. ^ Navarro, Patricia Avena (30 November 2010). "Pablo Reinoso". www.artealdia.com.
  6. ^ Mun-Delsalle, Y-Jean (13 May 2015). "French-Argentine Artist-Designer Pablo Reinoso's Sculptures Manipulate Reality". www.forbes.com.
  7. ^ Moore, Vanessa. "ART: Chairs with Hair and Benches with Fingers: Pablo Reinoso's "Living Sculptures"" MACAU DAILY TIMES -. Macau Daily Times, 30 April 2013 http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/43398-art%3A-chairs-with-hair-and-benches-with-fingers%3A-pablo-reinoso’s-“living-sculptures”.html
  8. ^ Wrathall, Claire (2020). Pablo Reinoso. Waddington Custot. ISBN 978-1-9164568-8-4.
  9. ^ Elisabeth, Perotin (1 June 2022). "The Chambord castle honors Pablo Reinoso". www.frenchglimpses.com.
  10. ^ Débordements: Pablo Reinoso. Domaine national de Chambord. 2022.
  11. ^ a b Debailleux, Henri-François (29 October 1998). "Reinoso, Appel d'air. A Malakoff, l'Argentin expose des oeuvres magiques en toile de parachute". Libération (in French). Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  12. ^ Attias, Laurie (March–April 1999). "Pablo Reinoso: Maison des Artes de Malakoff". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  13. ^ Jodidio, Philip (2007). 100 Extensions Et Rénovations Remarquables. Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-1-920744-51-9.
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