WORKS & PROCESS : DANIEL BUREN

Art Videos

Running time: 52 min. (approx.)
Gallery(ies): Gazoduc-TQM Room
Language: In French with English subtitles

Dir. Gilles Coudert and Sébastien Pluot, Paris, a.p.r.e.s éditions, c2011
Selected excerpts: 1. Vit et travaille in situ, 2002, 26 min ? 2. The Eye of the Storm, 2005, 13 min ? 3. Allegro Vivace, 2011, 13 min

1. This documentary traces French artist Daniel Buren’s artistic process through a conversation with Pierre-André Boutang that took place while the exhibition Le musée qui n’existait pas was being installed at the Centre Pompidou in 2002. It offers insight into the artist’s journey as well as his character. Buren discusses a number of his site-specific works, focusing in particular on how he has related to his “visual tool” throughout his career, as illustrated by previously unshown material. (Dir. Gilles Coudert and Sébastien Pluot)

2. This film features Daniel Buren’s exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June 2005. The artist revisits his controversial first installation there, mounted and quickly removed in 1971, and offers us clues to understanding his new project. The Eye of the Storm is a site-specific installation in which Buren engages, in his own way, with this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building that is emblematic of the history of architecture. (Dir. Gilles Coudert)

3. The subject of this film is Allegro Vivace, an exhibition by Daniel Buren at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 2011. Buren describes his intentions and the way his work enters into a dialogue with the museum. Exibition curator Cora von Pape also shares her thoughts on this project. (Dir. Gilles Coudert)