Daniel Buren

Artist from France · France · On the map · Artists · Born 1938 · age 88

Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007.

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2007Praemium ImperialeAward2000“I agree with Rosenberg’s text that says anything is art as soon as it is put in a museum.”In their wordsp. 66Read the whole statement

“Putting a shovel in a gallery or museum signified “this shovel has become art.” And it actually was.”In their wordsp. 66-67Read the whole statement

1979“When we say architecture, we include the social, political and économie context. Architecture of any sort is in fact the inévitable background, support and frame of any work.”In their wordsDaniel Buren (1979), cited in: A. A. Bronson, ‎Peggy Gale, ‎Art Metropole (1983). Museums by artists. p. 73Read the whole statement

1972“More and more, the subject of an exhibition tends not be the display of artworks, but the exhibition of the exhibition as a work of art.”In their wordsDaniel Buren (1972), cited in: Marina Abramović, ‎Jens Hoffmann (2004). The next Documenta should be curated by an artist.Read the whole statement

1970“The work of art... in seemingly by-passing all difficulties, attains full freedom, thus in fact nourishing the prevailing ideology.”In their wordsDaniel Buren, "Critical Limits," (1970), in: Buren, Five Texts, trans. Laurent Sauerwein (New York: John Weber Gallery, 1973), p. 45Read the whole statement

1967“Art is the illusion of disorientation, the illusion of liberty, the illusion of presence, the illusion of the sacred, the illusion of Nature. ...”In their wordsOctober 1967Daniel Buren, , and , at the Paris Biennale in October 1967. Translated and cited in: Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization ofRead the whole statement

1938Born25 March 1938

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The Observatory of the Light, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

Cour d'Honneur du Palais Royal, "Les Deux Plateaux", Daniel Buren

Tours Tram - The vertical stripes; Collaboration design with RCP Design Global

Paris, Monumenta 2012, Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren Neues Museum Nürnberg

" L'arc Rouge " (The red arc), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain

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Daniel Buren

4 statements, newest first

Duchamp realized that there was something false in art, but his limitation was that, rather than demystifying, he amplified it.
2000 · p. 66, Own words
Every place radically imbues (formally, architecturally, sociologically, politically) with its meaning the object (work creation) shown there.
1975 · Daniel Buren (1975), in: Studio International. Vol. 189-190, (1975), p. 124, Own words
My painting, at the limit, can only signify itself... It is. So much so, and so well, that anyone can make it and claim it...
1968 · Daniel Buren in an 1968 interviewer, cited in: Andrew Russeth, "Daniel Buren Shows His Stripes: The Celebrated Artist’s Two-Gallery Show Is, Own words

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Awards

Praemium Imperiale2007

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

About this person

He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.

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France