Daniel Buren has received global acclaim throughout his career, becoming best known for his iconic use of boldly coloured stripes, and his striking ability to transform environments through unforgettable interventions. Buren has created artworks that complicate the relationship between art and the structures that frame it. In the early 1960s, he developed a radical form of Conceptual Art, a “degree zero of painting” as he called it, which played simultaneously on an economy of means and the relationship between the support and the medium. This practice has punctuated the past 50 years of art and spawned multi-generational collaborations with other artists.
Often working within the realm of public art and site-specific installations, Buren uses the environment as inspiration. The result is both playful and inviting, as he heightens our attention to the surrounding architecture by manipulating mirrored perspectives. In doing so, the area becomes transformed and a critical dialogue opens up about how we, as the viewer, perceive, appropriate and utilise space.
Daniel Buren (b. 1938, France) has had many world-renowned exhibitions throughout his career including notable solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York), Grand Palais (Paris), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Strasbourg), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Museum de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Bogotá), Foundation Louis Vuitton (Paris), MAMO Centre d’art de la City Radieuse (Marseille), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung (Vienna), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) among many others. In 1986, Buren won the prestigious Golden Lion award for the Best Pavilion for his contribution of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2007, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Painting from Japan. Buren has many critically acclaimed permanent installations in both public places and museums, notably at the Louvre (Paris), Palais Royal (Paris), Tottenham Court Road Station (London), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Odaiba Bay (Tokyo), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao), Place de la Justice (Brussels) and cities such as Naples, Milan, Mexico City, Anyang, Florence, and many others.
