“You do not always need to be on a battlefield to come out of it annihilated. I was completely destroyed at the end of twenty-eight months of military service. One day, however, I went down to my garage and discovered in a corner some elements of my past, a few pots, a bag of cement, a pipe. There, in a very impulsive and incomprehensible gesture, I put cement into a pot — I concreted it — and then I covered it and daubed it with paint. At that moment I felt that I was discovering in myself something that set me free. I can say that I was born that day, in the end.”
Jean-Pierre Raynaud
Born on 20 April 1939 in Courbevoie. After training as a horticulturist, Jean-Pierre Raynaud became a visual artist at the beginning of the 1960s. Close to the Nouveaux Réalistes, he was interested in objects more for their psychic and intimate potential, choosing discarded materials gathered from suburban dumps. His first works contain the obsessive elements of his plastic vocabulary: the no-entry sign, the colours red and white, and the concreted flowerpot, painted red and marked with the number 3, which would become his fetish object.
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Born on 20 April 1939 in Courbevoie. After training as a horticulturist, Jean-Pierre Raynaud became a visual artist at the beginning of the 1960s. Close to the Nouveaux Réalistes, he was interested in objects more for their psychic and intimate potential, choosing discarded materials gathered from suburban dumps. His first works contain the obsessive elements of his plastic vocabulary: the no-entry sign, the colours red and white, and the concreted flowerpot, painted red and marked with the number 3, which would become his fetish object.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Sonnabend Gallery, New YorkJean-Pierre Raynaud, Galerie Daniel Templon, ParisJean-Pierre Raynaud, Art Tower Mito, Mito
1991
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, The Menil Collection, HoustonJean-Pierre Raynaud, Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoJean-Pierre Raynaud, Centre international d’art contemporain, MontréalJean-Pierre Raynaud, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1985
Noir et Blanc, ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris
1981
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1979
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Galeries contemporaines, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1978
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gand
1975
Panorama sur 12 ans, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
1973
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, New York
1970
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, New York
1969
Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Centre national d’art contemporain, ParisJean-Pierre Raynaud, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
