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Installation dimensions are variable, each plate is 17 1/8 x 17 1/8 inches (43 1/2 x 43 1/2 cm)
Signed and numbered on accompanied certificate
(Inventory #25030)
Installation dimensions are variable. One unit is to touch the top of the wall, one unit is to touch the bottom of the wall and the third unit is to be placed equidistant between the other two units.
Minimum installation dimensions: 110 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Small box: 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/2
Medium box: 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/2
Large box: 39 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
From a series of 15, each unique in color
Signed and numbered on label on verso of one box
(Inventory #37102)
Installation dimensions are variable, each element is 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Initialed on accompanying certificate. Edition number and fragment letter are in the lower right corner on the back of each print fragment.
(Inventory #32763)
Overall: approximately 58 7/8 x 82 5/8 inches (150 x 210 cm)
Each element: approximately 19 5/8 x 82 5/8 inches (50 x 210 cm)
Each element is signed by the artist on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #37419)
Approximately 19 5/8 x 82 5/8 inches (50 x 210 cm)
Signed by the artist on accompanying certificate, this being #19 of 30 unique works
(Inventory #37210)
Daniel Buren’s exhibitions and installations are conceived and created solely from their architectural and institutional settings. Buren uses the term “in situ” to describe the relationship between his work and the sites where they take place. A work in situ exists only in relation to the specific place that prompted it. In his work, Buren addresses characteristics of the host space and, in doing so, tends to transform it.
Buren examines a site’s structure, architecture, layout of rooms, exits, hallways, staircases, and windows. He also considers the more abstract aspects of a given space: the network of social, economic, and political forces at play in any given context. Because his work considers this constellation of variables, each is particular to the site it inhabits. From their very conception, his works are closely related to settings that represent the scenarios of everyday living. They are meant for and exist through direct interaction, eliciting the viewer’s sensibility, intelligence, and reflections.
In 1971 Buren conceived one of his first large scale in situ pieces for an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Peinture-Sculpture (Painting-Sculpture) focused on the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and the building’s orientation around an open spiral ramp. The museum’s open central area, known as the rotunda, is topped by a circular skylight. Daniel Buren’s proposal involved hanging a 66 x 32 ft. canvas banner with his signature vertical stripes in alternating white and blue. The work would bisect the rotunda from top to bottom. As the viewers traversed the circular ramps, at times they would see a flat expanse of canvas, similar to a large painting. But as they continued around, the banner could also be experienced as a sculptural object. The project was indeed in situ; it specifically addressed the museum’s imposing architecture and transformed the way it functioned. Buren’s work engendered criticism from several other artists in the exhibition. Before the official opening, it was removed. Buren’s current in situ work at the Guggenheim continues the dialogue between the artist and the museum that began more than thirty years ago.
-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
