Week 1 : Océane Doucet

Monumenta 2012, Daniel Buren

For the fifth edition of Monumenta (9^th May 2012 – 21^th June 2012) the artist Daniel Buren (French artist, painter and sculptor) takes possession of the nerve of Grand Palais in Paris. His work Excentrique(s), travail in situ attracts 259 000 people.

Daniel Buren uses for his work : the light, the colour, the movement, the architecture and the sound.

People can walk under yellow, green, blue and orange enormous circles. This remember us the architecture of Grand Palais who is based only on circular forms.

In the middle, we have a space completely empty. On the floor there are mirrors where we can sit, and observe the central dome witch is reflected by different colors.

Daniel Buren invites the public to get lost in the circles forest, to better discover the architecture of Grand Palais.

This masterpiece isn't only visual, it is also auditive. In fact, world's voices pronounce the four colors'name of way repetitive. Loudspeakers permit people to hear noises everywhere.

To finish, we can say that Daniel Buren plays again on the relationship between painting and material. This deserve him in 2007 the Nobel Prize Visual Arts. (190)