Daniel Buren
dal 16/5/2007 al 22/6/2007
Segnalato da
16/5/2007
Daniel Buren
Lisson Gallery, London
All of Buren's work is conceived for a specific site. His interventions are works in situ that appropriate and colour the space, and are the result of its particular architecture. These works question how we look and perceive and reveal the social characteristics and physical aspects of a space.
Solo show
Daniel Buren is France's most celebrated and influential living artist. This
is Buren's first solo show in London since 1987, when he realised a major
installation for the Serpentine Gallery and surrounding park. For this
exhibition Buren will create a series of new works conceived for the two
spaces of the Lisson Gallery at 29 and 52-54 Bell Street. The work will
transform the usual aspect of the galleries, while drawing attention to role
they play in the presentation and reception of art. Buren¹s most recent solo
shows include the Guggenheim in New York in 2005 (an installation image from
the show is illustrated above), and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2002.
All of Buren's work is conceived for a specific site. His interventions are
works in situ that appropriate and colour the space, and are the result of
its particular architecture. These works question how we look and perceive
and reveal the social characteristics and physical aspects of a space.
Renowned since the mid-1960s for his works founded in stripes, since the
mid-70s Buren has been working with many different materials including
paper, Plexiglas, aluminium, vinyl and glass; and experimenting with the
possibilities of light, colour and reflections.
In 1965 Buren first started making paintings using stripy fabric that he
bought in a textile market in Montmartre, pre-printed with alternating bands
of white and colour. By reducing painting to its simplest elements the
canvas and its support- Buren was able to explore the physical components of
the work and point to the ideological context in which its meaning is made.
Buren is also interested in the physical context in which work is shown, and
in the late 60s he began setting up hundreds of striped posters around Paris
and later in more than 100 metro stations, drawing public attention through
his unauthorised acts. Buren has continued to use stripes of fixed width,
alternating between white and colour, in a huge variety of different
contexts and media including paper, fabric and flowers to create dramatic
and challenging interventions and installations in public spaces and museums
around the world, including Les Deux Plateaux in 1986, a huge and
controversial installation in the classical courtyard of the Palais-Royal in
Paris. Buren's works continue to explore the role and function of the
artist, the limits and context of the practice of painting and sculpture,
and the relationship between art and the structures that frame it, including
the physical environment.
Daniel Buren was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, in 1938. He had
his first important solo exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan in
1968, where he blocked the gallery entrance with a striped support. In the
1970s and 1980s he presented exhibitions worldwide, including representing
France at the Venice Biennale in 1986 where he won the Golden Lion. In
December 2006 Buren won the competition to make a new major project for the
iconic 'Puente de La Salve' bridge next to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
while, in February 2007, the Fabre museum in Montpellier re-opened with a
new permanent commission. For the 52nd Venice Biennale Buren is creating a
new site-specific work for the Giardini of the Italian Pavilion, and is
curator of Sophie Calle¹s contribution to the French Pavilion.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a new
essay by curator and writer, Clare Doherty.
Image credits: Photo souvenir: Around the corner, work in situ, in The eye
of the storm, Guggenheim Museum, New York, March-June 2005, detail, © D.B
Preview Thursday 17th May 6 8pm
Lisson Gallery
29 & 52-54 Bell Street - London