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luglio 22, 2020 - Galleria Continua

Daniel Buren, 'Confinées: trois grilles colorées translucides', at the Galleria Continua, Beijing


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Daniel Buren’s in situ work at #galleriacontinua #beijing is the first work that the visitor will see when approaching the entrance to the gallery. Since October 2019, #galleriacontinua #beijing has hosted the exhibition “15 Artists x 15 Years in China”, an exhibition to celebrate the last 15 years of exhibitions and the rich and creative history of #galleriacontinua in, what was, its first international location.

Daniel Buren transforms public spaces, architecture and everyday environments through in-situ installations of stripes and colour that are indicative of his reinvention of the idea of the painter and artist in general. Confinées: trois grilles colorées translucides consists of the partition of the whole main front wall into six segments. Three segments are like windows, surrounded by a red frame, into which visitors can look and stand in front of the coloured background which is composed of a plexiglass transparent wall, lit from behind. This backlit feature enhances the brightness of the colours. The other three, placed in the middle of each window, are plain white surfaces interrupted by Daniel Buren’s signature 8.7cm wide stripes that are for this work executed in black, creating a monochromatic addition to the smooth white part of the wall. An immersive introduction into the wonderful works that are held in the gallery.

Daniel Buren draws yet again the visitor in a space-changing intervention providing the visitor with a unique experience before stepping foot in the door. The artist was already part for this exhibition with a historic installation made in 1969 with his famous 8.7cm wide stripes visible throughout the gallery space. Originally executed in black, the installation has been changing colour throughout the duration by being readapted in blue, red and yellow, supporting Buren’s belief in the ability of his work to change the perception and use of a space through in situ interventions. His stripes, , are always done in situ and are transformative of their surroundings. Buren often works with coloured glass, reflections and architectural constructions that invite the viewer to enter into a consistent relationship with the structures and surroundings, in turn providing an opportunity to approach a consideration on how we perceive space and how it is to be used. The notion of the point of view refers to an idea of perspective, to a three-dimensional perspective, the one surrounding us that's not illusionistic.

A viewer that approaches his works with an instinctive point of view will experience a completely overturned relationship to the artwork. Exceeding one or two fixed points of view with a multitude of viewpoints that answer, interfere, resolve, enrich and contradict each other, Daniel Buren's structures and interventions are allencompassing and significative for their immediate environment.


Daniel Buren

Confinées: trois grilles colorées translucides

21 May - 20 August 2020


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