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Daniel Buren: Les Deux Plateaux
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Entering the courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris, you are confronted with 450 free-standing black-and-white striped concrete pillars. They seem out of time and place, yet are somehow harmonious with the space and the people now using it. Daniel Buren's Les Deux Plateaux (1986) was a government commission, but Buren began producing unsolicited striped public art works (based on an awning fabric pattern common in France) and pasting up striped posters around Paris in the late 1960s. His stripes have appeared in various interventionist ways through a range of media ever since (© ART on File / CORBIS / artwork: © Daniel Buren / AGAGP. Paris) |
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