Daniel Buren French, b. 1938

Over the course of the past 50 years, French-born Daniel Buren has created memorable interventions, provocative public art projects, and interesting partnerships with artists across generations. Buren's works challenge the conventional understanding of the relationship between art and its surrounding environment. At the beginning of the 1960s, he adopted his personal interpretation of conceptual art referring to it as a "degree zero of painting" that simultaneously explored the link between the support and the medium and the economy of means. His 8.7cm-wide vertical stripes served as the basis for his investigation into the definition of painting, its presentation, and, more generally, the physical and social context of an artist's workspace. Buren creates all of his interventions in-situ, incorporating elements from the venues they are displayed in and giving them a unique colored atmosphere in order to challenge our sense of perception and how we use and appropriate space, as well as how space is exposed in its social and physical aspects.