Daniel Buren

Résumé : A la suite du roman in situ Le Stade qu'il prolonge, le roman flipbook La Poursuite a pour projet d'intégrer la dimension du livre au sein d'un continuum textuel évolutif. Si la fiction se développe à partir de la vitesse de feuilletage du livre, le double sens de son titre - continuation et projecteur de théâtre - lui apporte un éclairage supplémentaire. Assis à bord de son unité minimale de roulement, le héros suit une ligne infiniment droite dans un paysage en constante transformation. Restés à la base dont ils longent les aires d'activité, ses coéquipiers discourent sur les raisons de cette ligne. Quand ils atteignent le sommet de l'aire la plus haute, ils sont téléportés et La Poursuite apparaît alors sous un tout autre jour.

(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS) Daniel Buren consistently questions how art is conceived and perceived, and deliberately inverts the relationship that visual artworks maintain with the places where they are exhibited. Because an exhibition site is never neutral Buren integrates the locations characteristics into the work itself, to prevent the work from being hijacked by its place of presentation.Buren's in situ works are deduced from the sites where they take place. They integrate the role of the observer, who, by perceiving visually, can understand with minimal exterior information the links between the work and the host location that prompted it. This in situ concept enables such works to be eventually replayed like a musical score, and through it, Buren has broadened the artistic field into the entire visual domain.Author Guy Lelong examines the evolution of Daniel Buren's work from the advent of his famous 65-foot striped canvas in 1965 to his large-scale formal apparatuses of recent years. This book illuminates the origins, significance, and inherent revolutionary nature of Buren's art to date.Guy Lelong was editor of the magazine conséquences from 1983 to 1991. He has written for a variety of contexts including book, art gallery, concert hall, stage, and essay. His textual work Un plan tramé discusses the three spatial dimensions that can be exhibited in any suitable place. His most recent work, the stage play Mobiles, was produced in collaboration with the composer Marc-André Dalbavie for the Cité de la musique in Paris.