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The Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny has invited Daniel Buren to occupy the museum’s spaces in summer 2026.
The museum’s exploration of the relationship between Buren’s and Monet’s artistic approaches is framed by the centenary of Monet’s death.
The project, titled ‘Invitation à Daniel Buren. Plantations : travaux in situ, 2026’, addresses their shared interest in place, light, color and the spectator’s experience, as well as Buren’s references to Monet’s series and ‘Nymphéas’.
Buren uses alternating white and colored vertical stripes as a visual tool to reveal and emphasize places and their full context in works made in situ. His works engage with points of view, color, space, light and movement.
Beginning in 1965, Buren explored striped canvas as a support and made the colored stripe his ‘visual tool’; two years later, he moved to raw fabric without brush intervention and definitively abandoned painting.
The comparison places Buren’s highly rigorous system, which removes any trace of the hand, alongside Monet’s practice, which gives prominence to the painter’s gesture and the materiality of paint.
