"Trees", Pablo Reinoso

With the exhibition «Trees,» Pablo Reinoso presents a body of work centered around trees, symbolizing the encounter between nature and culture. His practice explores the vitality of living things through the principle of plant growth applied to materials and a conceptual shaping of the fundamental cycles of life.

Sensitive to the climate challenges that define our era, Reinoso has been interested in these issues since the 1980s with the series Articulations and Paysages d’eau. In recent years, Reinoso has continued this work with the «Trees» series, which he began in the late 2010s, questioning the balance between human and natural ecosystems.

Pablo Reinoso’s works demonstrate a deep respect for nature, an ethical stance, and a genuine fascination that extends to imitation, generating «landscapes, movement, waves, ripples, life, time, and breath.» He sculpts the forms of life into matter.

Pablo Reinoso (born in Buenos Aires in 1955) is a multidisciplinary artist. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1978. His practice spans the fields of sculpture, installation, design, architecture, and painting, all of which he approaches by questioning their nature and boundaries. Since the 1970s, the artist has developed a protean body of work, through which he explores material and the plastic and conceptual possibilities it conveys. Organized in series, his work multiplies mediums, which he explores in all their potential variations, beyond the constraints presented by the material. This research is accompanied by a reflection on the notions of object and functionality, whose relationship is perpetually reconfigured by the artist. Created using raw construction materials or objects derived from architecture and design, his works follow a logic of emancipating the object or material from its primary function, often achieved through repurposing.

Since the 2000s, these inquiries have materialized in the artist’s work on seating objects, which feature prominently in his recent creative output, particularly in the series Thoneteando, Bancs Spaghetti, and Garabatos. The relationship to space is also at the heart of Pablo Reinoso’s work. Often created in situ, his works maintain a deep connection with the places in which they are installed, thus questioning our way of being in space, both in terms of perception and usage. Anchored in public spaces and often monumental, these creations inherently have a social purpose; within urban and natural environments, they foster interaction among users, creating new opportunities for exchange, conversation, or meeting. In recent years, the artist has undertaken numerous large-scale projects in public and prestigious locations, including in Lyon (Nouages, 2013), at the Élysée Palace (Racines de France, 2016 and Fleuves de France, 2024), in London (We Watch You Too and Only Children’s Bench, 2016), in Buenos Aires (Aires de Buenos Aires, 2019), and in South Korea (Busan Infinity Line, 2019).