‘Délicatesse des couleurs’, the tenth exhibition in Salzburg’s Hangar-7, presents young French artists who take on current societal problems in their art. In the case of Benjamin Bruneau, born in 1974, the abundance of pictures and information we’re confronted with day in day out is the leitmotiv.
Firstly, please give us a few details about you: What do you like, what can’t you stand, and what do you laugh about the most?
I like painting, music, dance and theater; I can’t stand racism and violence; and I laugh about losers, everything that’s supposed to provoke me, and off-the-wall-things.
Which three artists – also from different genres if you like – touch you?
Rembrandt, the underground comic book artist Robert Crum and the puppeteer Philippe Gentil.
What do observers of your art usually notice first … ?
The subliminal language that underlies everything.
Please give us some insight into the working environment where most of your works are created. Is it sterile or chaotic; quiet or full of life?
I work in a romantic and tragic atmosphere; mysteriousness and insidious seduction.
Please choose one of your exhibited works and describe in a few words how it developed and what the idea behind it is.
What I absorb in Paris city life I took up in ‘PMU’, and grouped it around one single point.
What would be the ideal feeling or awareness that observers leave the Hangar-7 exhibition with?
With the same feeling they’d have after visiting Yoba [Parisian lingerie shop].
Benjamin Bruneau
Benjamin Bruneau