Daniel Buren: Peintures 1966-1969 travaux situés 2016

In the Buchmann Box the gallery is showing early works by Daniel Buren, dating from 1966 and 1969. These were key years in the artist’s oeuvre, years in which he reached his “degree zero of painting”. They also mark the start of his in-situ artworks, which he created all over the world and which use 8.7-cm-wide vertical stripes as a signature visual code. The repetitive use of these stripes eliminates any form of representation. The image references only itself. Buren places the pictures on the ground like objects, thus adding to their self-referentiality by appropriating the space in which they are shown.