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The work that Daniel Buren has developed over the last forty years is particularly familiar to a lot of Luxembourgers thanks to a series of outdoor pieces titled D’un cercle à l’autre Le paysage emprunté (From One Circle to Another - Borrowed Landscape) installed since 2001 in different locations in the city of Luxembourg. Taking the form of square panels, striped with orange and white bands and pierced with large round openings, it directs our attention towards different picturesque views of the the city, by presenting a framed “image”. The stripes were long considered by the artist to be a “visual tool”: without any particular meaning, but emblematic of his work, they act as a sign, basically serving to attract attention and direct the gaze. With time, they have also become the signature of the artist.
Through his installation at Mudam, Daniel Buren addresses the most symbolic “frame” of the museum, namely the architecture of Ieoh Ming Pei, while subverting, not without a certain irony, the invitation to exhibit in the central space of the Grand Hall (which in itself sums up the most important aspects of Pei’s architectural discourse). In response to these “constraints”, Daniel Buren is shifting an entire architectural fragment into the Grand Hall: his installation taking the life-size form of the museum pavilion (which has the same type of atrium as the Grand Hall).
Photos Daniel Buren: Architecture, contre-architecture: transposition, 2010, Travail in situ, Production Mudam Luxembourg © Photo Andrés Lejona
The exhibition will be open from 09/10/2010 until 22/05/2011
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