Daniel Buren, Intervention II, Works in Situ
Modern Art Oxford, 4 November 2006-28 January 2007
Description:... Daniel Buren is one of France s most significant living artists. Since he first began working with what has become his signature motif of alternating white and coloured stripes of equal and non-variable sizes in 1965, Buren has created dramatic, playful and thought-provoking interventions in museums, galleries and public spaces that question the relationship between art and the structures that frame it. This new book, published to coincide with the artist s first major exhibition in the UK for twenty years, features an interview with the artist and documentation of his work at Modern Art Oxford, 2006 07. His first exhibition in a public gallery in this country was held at Modern Art Oxford in 1973, for which he suspended a series of vertically-striped canvases from the superstructure of the main upstairs gallery to create a sequence of flowing vertical planes that cut across the space at right angles to the gallery s outer walls. In 2006, Buren revisits the Gallery s spaces with a new intervention. This exhibition is part of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary art from France, taking place across UK museums and galleries. Includes an interview with the artist by Jerome Sans.
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