Artist::Daniel Buren
PARIS – In the mind of the public at large, here is an artist who uscceeded in becoming one with his obsessional motive, bands. In a constant width – 8.7 cm – he has placed it on urban fences (in the 60s), in happenings remained famous (such as the one in 1967 in Paris with his colleagues Mosset, Parmentier and Toroni), in the heart of the Guggenheim (creating once again a beautiful scandal in 1971), up to thePalais-Royal where his installation
Deux Plateaux, known as «Buren’s columns», broadcast his name throughout the various stratta of the population (1986). Golden Lion at the Biennale of Venice that same year, Buren has included in his artistic practice other colors than black and white, other formats than the vertical band. The exhibition at Beaubourg in 2002 gave fame to his concept of the «exploded cabin», in which elements from a cube of the base – a square window for example – is thrown against an adjacent wall. This game of expansion in space finds a new expression at the Kamel Mennour gallery, with the inauguration this time of a new space in a private town house on rue Saint-André-des-Arts.
- Daniel Buren, « C’était, c’est, ce sera », works located on site at the Kamel Mennour gallery, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, 75006 Paris, until 19 January 2008