Daniel Buren - Au sujet de ...
In conversation with Jérôme Sans
© 1998, Éditions Flammarion, Paris
Collection: La Boîte Noire
Pagination: 237 pages
Date of publication: 1998
Language: French
ISBN: 2-84089-178-6
Daniel Buren is one of the most internationally renowned French artists, yet his work remains relatively unknown in France. Despite the impressive number of books that Daniel Buren has devoted himself to his work, there has never been a small-format publication that provides a direct critical and self-critical relationship with his work. One that would allow us to really take stock of his work as a whole. This interview was conducted over a period of four years, in different places, in different countries and at different times, between two trips, between two projects. It did not take place in the urgency of journalistic logic, but in time, like the story of an adventure, that of the artist and his journey. It is a work of proximity.
Among the many subjects discussed, we can mention the Palais-Royal, the cinema, the education received, the alternating white and colored stripes, conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, the New Realist poster artists, Donald Judd - "wallpaperer", he said of Daniel Buren in 1971 -, Documenta 5 in Kassel, architecture, the Cabanes éclatées (exploded huts), public sales, galleries, in-situ work, Henri Matisse, individualism, multi-culturalism or the video.
