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20/9/2011

Daniel Buren

S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent

For the Chambres d'Amis exhibition in 1986, the French artist Daniel Buren applied his familiar banded motif to the guest room in the house of the art collectors Annick and Anton Herbert. He also installed a copy of the room in the museum at the time. This public half of Le Decor et son Double is now being shown again for the first time and is also being incorporated into the museum collection. Whereas the Herberts preserved Buren's intervention in their guest room, the public copy was lost. Now, 25 years after Chambres d'Amis, thanks to the support of the Flemish Community and the City of Ghent, the museum is able to reconstruct the public half of this key work and add it to its collection. This co-ownership creates a direct link and even a certain mutual dependence between the private collector and the public institution. The substantive cooperation on Le Decor et son Double can be seen as an example of the way S.M.A.K. intends to increasingly integrate the expertise and unique involvement of private collectors into its work. What is more, this project emphasises the particular attention the museum, as an intermediary between art and the public, pays to the interaction between contemporary art, areas of social, political and cultural tension, and public space. Another large-scale exhibition that fits into this framework is Track, which, in line with Chambres d'Amis and Over the Edges (2000), will offer thirty international artists the opportunity to occupy the centre and outskirts of Ghent as from 12th May 2012.

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