Video: Art project by a French artist to modernize the facade of the Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art
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French conceptual artist Daniel Buren presented his new installation Comme un jeu d'enfant, travaux in situ at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg on June 10 this year, through which the artist decided to modernize the glazed facade of the museum. You can admire the master's creation until January 2015.
The artist was faced with a difficult task - to modernize the facade of the museum, which has not been restored since 1968. With the help of a tinted film, attached directly to the glass, the artist manages to "revive" the building not only from the outside. Sunlight passing through colored glass creates a special atmosphere in the halls of the museum. Reflections look very impressive, significantly transforming museum galleries.
Buren was born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Paris in 1960. Six years later, he formulated a special creative strategy for himself, which later became his signature technique. It was then that Buren decided to completely move away from traditional painting, focusing on the image of colored stripes of equal width. One of Buren's most controversial architectural projects, Two Places at the Palais-Royal (Paris), was based on this principle. Today this project, better known as "Buren's Columns", has become a new landmark in Paris, at the same time the Parisians took the artist's creation with hostility.
Buren's installation for the Strasbourg Museum is reminiscent of one of Paul Coxedge's last works, Palette. Not far from the Bosphorus, the designer installed a screen with translucent acrylic discs painted in the colors of the British and Turkish flags. The pattern, which is projected onto the snow-white slabs of the embankment, should, according to the author's idea, emphasize the friendly relations of the two powers.
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