Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren was born 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), lives and works in Paris. «In the years 1965-1966 I found the striped fabric with which I could first execute a personal, later a radical criticism of the artwork -- by reducing my own activities to something more or less desparate, more or less in vain.» For 30 years, the vertical stripes of 8.7 cm wide, have been the constant element in the work of Buren, who has systematically investigated their artistic potential in paintings, objects and most often, in site-specific public installations.