An artistic encounter on an ambitious scale, the annual Monumenta exhibition invites a well-known contemporary artist to create a work especially for the huge space inside the glass-roofed nave of the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition has so far featured Anselm Kiefer in 2007, Richard Serra in 2008, Christian Boltanski in 2010 and Anish Kapoor in 2011. It is Daniel Buren – one of the most highly recognized and honored artists, by both his peers and the public – who will take up the challenge in May and June 2012.
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About Daniel Buren:
Daniel Buren was born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries worldwide. Since 1972, he has participated four different times at Documenta in Kassel. The artist has been invited to the Venice Biennial more than ten times, where he was honored with the Golden Lion for the best pavilion in 1986. That same year he completed the work, “Les Deux Plateaux, sculpture in situ” at the Palais Royal in Paris. It was Buren’s first, of now more than eighty, official public works he has created around the world. He received several awards including the “International Award for the Best Artist” given in Stuttgart, Germany in 1991 and the “Grand Prix National de Peinture” in France in 1992. In 1990 the artist was honored as a “Living Treasure” in New Zealand for the country’s 150th anniversary. In 2002 Buren had a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and in 2005, he had a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Bio via suecrockford.com
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