Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist who lives and works 'in situ', creating site-specific works that dialogue with their surroundings. He explores the interactions between art, space and perception, challenging conventions and inviting the public to reflect on the role of art in public and institutional spaces.
In 1999, on the occasion of the 4th edition of Arte all'Arte, curator Florian Matzner invited him to take part in a talk at the Cassero della Fortezza in Poggibonsi. While in 2001, the curators Jérôme Sans and Pier Luigi Tazzi of the 6th edition of Arte all'Arte invited him to give a talk at the Castello di Linari together with José Antonio Hernández-Diez and Ottonella Mocellin.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he spoke as a guest speaker at the fourth webinar organised in online mode by Associazione Arte Continua as part of the broad project "Land City of the Future"entitled 'Frame 004, Public Art and Urban Regeneration'.
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, born on 25 March 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Paris until 1960, exploring different disciplines including sculpture and painting. In the 1960s, Buren began to create works that questioned the relationship between medium and form, using 8.7 cm vertical striped motifs as a distinctive signature. These stripes became a recurring element in his work, used to explore concepts of space and perception. He has participated in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion for the French Pavilion in 1986. In the same year, he created one of his most controversial public works, 'Les Deux Plateaux', in the main courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. In 2007, Buren received the Praemium Imperiale for painting from Japan. Most recently, in 2012, he was selected for the site-specific Monumenta commission at the Grand Palais in Paris. Throughout his career, Daniel Buren has continued to explore and challenge perceptions of space and art, maintaining an influential presence in the contemporary art scene.