Scaffolding, white matt adhesive vinyl 8.7 cm wide on green painted wood
The contrasting stripes delineate an aerial walkway that offers new observational perspectives of the works exhibited, creating not only a new way of moving around in the space but also unexpected viewpoints from within it. Daniel’s artistic intent is to make the context of the work – the space and the light – visible to the spectator, but also to stir the consciousness of the viewer and to create awareness in as broad a sense as possible. Buren’s work redefines the place where the artwork is situated, demonstrating its complexity and his ideological approach to art and every form of experience. Buren has been using scaffolding for some 40 years now, making it an essential visual element in such in situ works as Floating Square at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1987), Soixante-cinq marches at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1987), Sculpture contre-sculpture in Rotterdam (1988), Trouées: cinq couleurs pour un lieu at the Institut Français in Seoul (1988), Le Musée qui n’existait pas at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2002), Around the Corner at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2005), and La Coupure at the Musée Picasso, Paris (2008).
