MONUMENTA 2012 BY DANIEL BUREN at Grand Palais, Paris. Daniel Buren Thinks Big, Sees The World Through Tinted Glass. For decades, Daniel Buren’s conceptual art has graced exhibition halls throughout his native France, as well as the international scene.
His new work, Excentrique(s), in situ, sees the artist rising to the peak of his artistic career with an exhibition that represents his commitment to developing abstract minimalism. The polychromatic work is on exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris, where Four Tet, Caribou and Jamie xx will offer us exclusive back-to-back-to-back DJ sets this Thursday, June 21st, as part of The Creators Project: Paris 2012. Buren began his work in the 1960s, attempting to redefine the notion of radicalism in painting. His most notable works explore binary shapes, colors, and their absolute character. In the late 60s, Buren began using the term “in situ,” referring to the practice of creating works specifically for certain locales or settings, a concept which would eventually characterize all of his future works.
"I Don't Like the Term Installation": Daniel Buren on His Grand Palais-Filling Monumenta Show. PARIS — Daniel Buren's exhibition "Excentrique(s), travail in situ" for Monumenta, has been very well received by the public — and ARTINFO — and newly elected French president François Hollande even dropped by to see the exhibition the day it opened.
Since then, Buren has made a slight change to the exhibition, allowing visitors to go onto the balcony to see his work from above. ARTINFO France recently sat down with Buren to talk about how this exhibition is different from all his others, his gripes with gallerists, and his unconventional ideas about the autonomy of art. What effect has Monumenta had on you this year? By definition — and it should be like this for quite a long time — each invited artist will feel the weight of the others. I have four that I have to deal with. Is your work for Monumenta a departure for you? Why didn't you choose a curator for Monumenta? For solo shows I don't see what good a curator can do, unless it's to serve coffee.
I didn't have a gallery for a while. Monumenta 2012: Excentrique(s) by Daniel Buren at the Grand Palais in Paris. Kaleidoscope eyes: Daniel Buren's Monumenta installation in Paris - in pictures. French conceptual artist Daniel Buren is the fifth artist to take over the Grand Palais in Paris.
His offering is Excentrique(s), a giant kaleidoscope-style installation that fills the building's nave. Daniel Buren's Rainbow Colored Forest. Ready for a fantastic installation that will make you want to hop on a plane to Paris?
French conceptual artist Daniel Buren presents Excentrique(s), an incredibly beautiful exhibit at the Grand Palais. Rainbow colored disks act like trees one walks underneath. It's part of Monumenta, an annual art project now in its fifth year, that dares an artist of international stature to overtake one of the French capital’s most monumental buildings. (You may remember British artist Anish Kapoor's massive balloon beast which filled the space last year. It attracted more than 270,000 people in just six and a half weeks!) The translucent circles, colored in red, blue and green, create a second roof that's just eight feet high. "Wow. The installation will be open to the public on May 10 through June 21, 2012.
Photos via [The Telegraph] and [Guardian] Excentrique by Daniel Buren. Monumenta project by Daniel Buren. French minimalist artist, Daniel Buren, has worked on various international public projects over the years and most recently created an ambitious installation entitled "The day after disco.” at the famed Grand Palais building in Paris.
The artist blanketed the interior of the building with colored parasols that can be walked under. The artist spoke of this particular piece, "This work is specially done to catch the light and to make it visible. The use of the color make absolutely visible the light which goes through this ceiling," Via.