Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren ( born March 25, 1938 in Boulogne- Billancourt, near Paris ) is a French painter and sculptor and is considered representative of the analytical painting and conceptual art.

Life

Buren studied from 1957 to 1960 sculpture and painting at the Ecole des Métiers d'Art in Paris. After a short stay at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, he opted for the painting.

Daniel Buren was a participant in Documenta 5 6 (1977 ) and the Documenta 7 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department Idea Idea / light and at the Documenta in 1982 as an artist.

Work

As Buren trademarks are stripes of different color that are always exactly 8.7 cm wide and applied to a wide variety of shapes and materials, such as in an action in the exhibition brochure 68 in Dusseldorf in 1968 on a fence. Buren works primarily in the public space, but also receives orders from international institutions to large-scale installations.

Further work Buren are the floor in Wolfsburg Hauptbahnhof or the walk-in artwork Les Deux Plateaux (1985 /86) in the Palais Royal (Paris ); also in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster includes works by the artist. Von Buren, the design of the stops of the line comes 2 tram in Mulhouse in Alsace, which went into operation in 2006.

" Boer attacks in his works on the characteristics of the place, by reflecting, visualized and as transparently makes " according to a Swiss newspaper, " Boers do not want mere decoration, so beautify urban flaws - for Buren is not the work of art a thing, that there is to see, but one thing that allows you to see first. "

In 2010, the Haus der Kunst in Munich in Concept Art - Exhibition Less is more. Images, objects, concepts of collection and archive of Herman and Nicole Daled, 1966 - 1978 twelve large early stripe paintings of the artist shown from the seventies. These had " rested " in the collector couple to date in a sports bag.

In the synagogue ( Stommeln ) in Stommeln he showed in 2010 multiplications by reflections of the interior. 2011 was held at the Kunsthalle Baden -Baden, the exhibition Daniel Buren. Allegro Vivace instead.

On the occasion of the 5th Monumenta 2012, he dipped the Grand Palais in Paris by hundreds of colored circles in an inhospitable light.

Awards

2007 Buren was awarded the Praemium Imperiale.