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Daniel Buren

SELECTED WORKS
Three Light Boxes for One Wall
1989
Three elecrical light boxes with silkscreen

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)

Framed/Exploded/Defaced
1979
Unique color aquatint in 25 individually framed fragments, from a series of 46, where each work is in a different color, to be mounted on a wall in the prescribed manner

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)

Démultiples
2017
Unique work of awning fabric with stitching and white acrylic paint to be placed per artist's guidelines, in three parts

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)

Démultiple
2017
Unique work of awning fabric with stitching and white acrylic paint to be placed per artist's guidelines: to be installed touching the bottom of the wall, and 82 5/8 inches from either the left or right edges of the wall

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)

Additional Information

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

Rubber Stamp Portfolio: Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Barry LeVa, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Don Nice, Myron Stout, Tom Wesselmann, and Joe Zucker

June 21, 2025
- July 18, 2025

Daniel Buren and Vik Muniz: Continuity

October 22, 2022
- December 17, 2022

Daniel Buren: 8.7 cm

May 4, 2020
- June 13, 2020

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2018

February 27, 2018
- March 4, 2018

The Blue and Then What

March 18, 2017
- April 22, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Daniel Buren, George Segal, and Kate Shepherd

One Wall, One Work:
Daniel Buren

September 10, 2016
- December 10, 2016

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2013

March 5, 2013
- March 10, 2013

One Wall, One Work: Daniel Buren

March 2, 2010
- April 3, 2010

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2009

February 19, 2009
- February 23, 2009

The Sum of Its Parts

September 2, 2008
- October 7, 2008

Featuring works by Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Tara Donovan, Tony Feher, Jenny Holzer, Allan McCollum, Roy McMackin, Julian Opie, Maurizio Pellegrin, Liliana Porter, and Suara Welitoff

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Fair 2007

February 21, 2007
- February 26, 2007

Group Show

June 18, 2005
- July 28, 2005

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Uta Barth, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, Maryellen Latas, Sol LeWitt, Julian Opie, Jeff Perrott, Jonathan Seliger, Kelly Sherman, Bill Thompson, Peter Wegner, and Laura Wulf

The Armory Show 2004

March 11, 2004
- March 14, 2004

One Vocabulary: Its Permutations and the Possibilities Therefrom Part I

May 27, 1995
- August 15, 1995

Featuring works by Daniel Buren and Chuck Close