Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren, just having flown in from France and resplendent in a black silver buttoned velvet vest, walks to the table where his box has been placed. He has the happiest face.
In a delightfully thick French accent he says "My first thought, thinking of the process, if I was here today, everything going fairly, it would be unfair that you would be the only one seeing the four surprises. I remember perfectly well what it is, but have no idea what is inside"…

In the latter half of the 1960’s, after studying painting, Daniel Buren began producing works by using striped cloth. This striped cloth, which Buren calls "a seeing tool," is a fabric that is widely sold in France. The width of the stripe is invariably 8.7 cm. In 1968, for example, Daniel Buren, without permission, put up 200 striped posters around Paris; in 1970, also unauthorized, he put up striped posters in 140 Metro stations. Thus distributing stripes to various places, he drew public attention. At his first solo exhibition in a gallery, he blocked up its entrance with stripes…