I recently visited the exhibition Less is More at the modern art museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands. There were plenty of interesting works on display but this one might be my favorite. It is called Peinture and it is by Jean-Pierre Raynaud. It consists out of several cans of paint inside a transparent plastic box. The front surface area has the size of a standard canvas. So these cans of paint want to be a painting. Also note that the name of the piece, Peinture, means painting in French. So you can imagine that the artist wants to ask if the potential of paint to become a painting is the same as being a painting. Another way of looking at is within the context of the theme of the exhibition. Less is more. So isn't the ultimate reduction of a painting the paint in their protective shells? I can imagine that that is what this work is all about. :o)
