Container Zero : Centre Georges Pompidou

Container Zero by Jean Pierre Raynaud does not always have a print of a skull inside of it. Since 1988 Raynaud has filled this 3x3 meter container with various artworks of his. The tiles are 15x15cm and except for the light the unit never changes.
Originally Raynaud had a degree in Horticulture, but he abandon the line of work and produced his first artwork in 1962. Most of his artworks have flower pots that are filled with cement rendering them useless. This could be a symbol for him feeling that his life or his existence doesn't work in the world.
This piece could be symbolic in two possible ways. A skull could mean that Raynaud, 74 years old, is now considering the possibility of his own death. Or it is a direct statement about him musing about death in general. He talks about how when choosing the tile inside this box he went to a hospital and morgue to make sure that they used a similar tile.
Reynaud's work makes very blunt statements through complex thought. Maybe that is how he's managed to secure a spot in the Centre Georges Pomidou Museum for 25 years now.

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