Daniel
Buren
Daniel
Buren
Buren
Driven by his quest for a "zero point of painting", the French painter Daniel Buren is the author of a prolix body of work, between minimal, conceptual, institutional and op art, that has made a great contribution to pushing the boundaries of the pictorial medium.
It was by chance during a visit to the Saint-Pierre market in Paris that the artist found his favourite motif, banal two-colour vertical stripes printed on fabric, which he immediately went to reproduce on canvas in 1965. The famous stripes, with a standardised width of 8.7 cm, became his trademark within the BMPT iconoclastic group. These first fertile years produced a critical reflection revolving around the relationship between (pictorial) work and its context. From that point on, according to Buren, work should automatically consider the specifics of the exhibition space, adding a reflexive and visual depth that is unparalleled in modern art.
Daniel Buren’s work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the “Mapping the studio” exhibition at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.
It was by chance during a visit to the Saint-Pierre market in Paris that the artist found his favourite motif, banal two-colour vertical stripes printed on fabric, which he immediately went to reproduce on canvas in 1965. The famous stripes, with a standardised width of 8.7 cm, became his trademark within the BMPT iconoclastic group. These first fertile years produced a critical reflection revolving around the relationship between (pictorial) work and its context. From that point on, according to Buren, work should automatically consider the specifics of the exhibition space, adding a reflexive and visual depth that is unparalleled in modern art.
Daniel Buren’s work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the “Mapping the studio” exhibition at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.
