BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

22 Born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Daniel Buren is one of the most important contemporary Art figures. He graduates in 1960 at the Parisian Ecole National Supérieure des Métiers d’Art. In 1965 elaborates his artistic vocabulary: white vertical stripes alternated with colourful ones 8,7 cm wide, that he defines “his visual tool” . He got interested in the bound between Architecture and Art, developing a 3D work in which the art piece was not the object but modulation in space, creating the work “in site” idea or the art intervention related to a place. In the 70s he starts exhibiting in museums. The artist reckons that “all the di- splayed works are staged” and so exhibitions become a mere decoration, de- nouncing the staging institutions role. In 1986 at Venezia’s Biennale receives a “ Leone D’oro” , and in the year the fa- mous “ Buren Columns ” are inaugurated in Paris at Palais Royal courtyard. In 2007 receives the Japanese Imperial Award. Since now he has built 2000 instal- lations worldwide. Modem Men’s Modem New York/LA Fall-Winter 2011-2012 Covers by DANIEL BUREN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST 2011