Daniel Buren
Paris, France
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Daniel Buren is an artist who has based his practice, among other things, on the idea of the zero degree of painting, which consists of the negation of painting (on canvas) as an object and its reduction to minimal components, colour and support. This concept is formally emphasized by the use and repetition of basic geometric forms and the combination of primary colors. In this sense, his proposal also revolves around the inseparability between audience, site and art, or, subject-object-experience. Even when his works are not directly painted onto walls, Buren often makes use of translucent materials as a strategy to visually integrate the environment with the artwork, or vice versa.
Daniel Buren (Paris,1938) lives and works in situ. His work is located within the field of conceptual discourse and institutional critique, focussing on the intervention between public space and architecture. Buren was granted, among many other distinctions and awards, the Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale in 1986 and the Premium Imperial in Japan in 2007. In 1985 he created his most controversial public installation, Les deux plateaux, within the patio of the Palais Royal in Paris. In his career he has exhibited in the most important museums and institutions around the world including the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2005 and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2002. In 2012 his show Excentriques was presented as part of the Monumenta cycle at the Grand Palais in Paris. L’Observatoire de la
lumiére, an intervention to Foundation Louis Vuitton’s building, was presented from 2016 - 2017. Daniel Buren has completed more than 3000 public interventions worldwide, as well as many permanent works.