Daniel Buren
Categories: Installation art Painting BMPT group Site specific art Praemium Imperiale Award Documenta Kassel Venice Biennale
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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…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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