Untitled (Door), 2006

For over thirty years, Daniel Buren has produced works that make direct reference to the space in which they are installed. He was one of the first to use the term "in situ" to describe his artistic practice. At the end of the 60s, Buren turned his back on painting and declared 8.7 cm vertical colored and white stripes to be the vocabulary of his artist. Buren sees this pattern of stripes a visual tool which as a signifier that can be reproduced and that does not have its own meaning inscribes and questions all the variable sites of meaning. Since then his examination of the aesthetic, social, economic, and political frames for contemporary artist have been the theme of his works. According to the artist's conceptual ideas, this edition, Untitled (Door), must be shown or installed in real architecture functioning as a door connecting or dividing two rooms.