Pablo Reinoso
Pablo Reinoso (born in Buenos Aires in 1955) is a multidisciplinary artist who has been based in Paris since 1978.
His multidisciplinary practice spans the fields of sculpture, installation, design, architecture, and painting. Since the 1970s, the artist has been developing a multifaceted body of work, through which he explores materials and the plastic and conceptual possibilities they convey. This research is accompanied by a reflection on the notions of object and functionality, whose relationship is constantly being reconfigured by the artist. Created using raw construction materials or objects from architecture and design, his works are part of a process of emancipating objects or materials from their primary function, often through diversion.
The relationship to space is also central to Pablo Reinoso's work. Often created in situ, his works maintain a deep connection with the places in which they are located, thus questioning our way of being in space, both in terms of perception and use. Anchored in public spaces and often monumental, these creations have, by their very nature, a social purpose; in urban and natural environments, they encourage interaction between users, creating new opportunities for exchange, conversation, or encounter. In recent years, the artist has completed numerous large-scale projects in prestigious public spaces, notably in Lyon (Nouages, 2013), the Élysée Palace (Racines de France, 2016), London (We Watch You Too and Only Children's Bench, 2016), Buenos Aires (Aires de Buenos Aires, 2019), and South Korea (Busan Infinity Line, 2019).
Among his iconic works, the Spaghetti Benches are above all a tribute to plant intelligence and the arrangements it adopts in order to perpetuate its growth. Since 2020, the artist has also been developing a body of paintings that allow him to pursue his formal and conceptual reflection with renewed vigor.
In 2024, Pablo Reinoso's work was exhibited at the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (Badajoz, Spain), Hangar Y (Meudon, France), and the Centre Pompidou-Metz. In 2022, his work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Château de Chambord (Loire Valley, France), taking place in the interior spaces and gardens of the château. The artist's work has been exhibited in international institutions and as part of major artistic events, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Palazzo Al Bosco (Tuscany, Italy), the Kunstmuseum den Haag (The Hague), Sciences Po (Paris), the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, the MUDAC in Lausanne, the CID - Center for Innovation and Design in Grand-Hornu, the Venice Biennale, FIAC Hors-les-murs, Bienalsur, and AGORA, the Bordeaux Biennale. His works are part of the collections of the MALBA and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the National Contemporary Art Fund in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, the MACRO Rosario, and the MUSAC in León, Spain.
Since 2014, Pablo Reinoso has also been interested in the scale of jewelry, which is challenging for an artist who works on a monumental scale.
For the MiniMasterpiece gallery, he has designed a dozen bold and flattering projects in which his “style” is immediately recognizable.
