Overview
O.T.R.A, 2020; OUR SHADOW WILL NOT SHUT THE FIRE P E, 2023
O.T.R.A, 2020; OUR SHADOW WILL NOT SHUT THE FIRE P E, 2023

« Bruno Rousseaud puise dans l’univers de l’automobile la matière d’un art singulier, à la fois minimaliste et rock. La bagnole est sa mythologie, son horizon et son médium. »

Charles Geoffrion

Né en 1969, vit et travaille à Paris. Bruno Rousseaud élit depuis une vingtaine d’années le champ automobile comme invariant plastique.
De cet univers formel cohérent, dont l’artiste extrait les composants, émerge un ensemble d’œuvres polymorphes, faussement familières, constituées de plaques d’immatriculation, de capots poncés et de pare-brises réfléchissants, d’amoncellement de pneus rivetés et de rétroviseurs incisés. Érigées en sculptures ou mimant le tableau, les œuvres détournent l’axiome automobile et accueillent des pictogrammes, des oxymores et des formules d’emprunt, et quelques qualificatifs impérieux qui trahissent la percée d’un singulier langage.
 
Cécile Godefroy, extrait du livre "Bruno Rousseaud", Editions Dilecta, p. I
 

« Bruno Rousseaud draws inspiration from the automotive world to create a unique art form that is both minimalist and rock ‘n’ roll. Cars are his mythology, his horizon, and his medium.»

Charles Geoffrion

 

Born in 1969, lives and works in Paris. For the past twenty years, Bruno Rousseaud has chosen the automotive field as a plastic invariant. From this coherent formal universe, from which the artist extracts components, emerges a set of polymorphous, deceptively familiar works, made up of license plates, sanded hoods and reflective windshields, piles of riveted tires and incised mirrors. Erected as sculptures or mimicking paintings, the works hijack the automobile axiom and welcome pictograms, oxymorons and borrowed formulas, as well as a few imperious qualifiers that betray the breakthrough of a singular language.


Cécile Godefroy, extract from the book “Bruno Rousseaud”, Editions Dilecta, p. I

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Works
  • BREAK MY BODY (PIXIES - 1987)
    BREAK MY BODY (PIXIES - 1987)
  • OUR SHADOW WILL NOT SHUT THE FIRE - PAUL ELUARD
    OUR SHADOW WILL NOT SHUT THE FIRE - PAUL ELUARD
  • O.T.R.A
    O.T.R.A
  • FAILURE
    FAILURE
  • Sick again (Led Zeppelin)
    Sick again (Led Zeppelin)
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