Daniel Buren
Security officers at The Museum of Modern Art during the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today at The Museum of Modern Art, 2008, wearing vests by Daniel Buren, for the work: Essai hétéroclite: les gilets, 1981-2008.
Commission by Daniel Buren for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009.
Image © 2009 The Museum of Modern Art
Security officers at The Museum of Modern Art during the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today at The Museum of Modern Art, 2008, wearing vests by Daniel Buren, for the work: Essai hétéroclite: les gilets, 1981-2008.
Commission by Daniel Buren for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009.
Image © 2009 The Museum of Modern Art
Daniel Buren
Works in the exhibition
Essai hétéroclite: les gilets, 1981-2008
Silk waistcoats for Information Assistants
Courtesy of Daniel Buren
The striped waistcoats worn by Tate Liverpool's Information Assistants have been designed by Buren for Colour Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. Over forty years ago, Buren adopted the striped fabric made for French café awnings as his medium, employing it in often unexpected ways and locations. The fabric's fixed range of seven colours satisfied his desire to remove from colour 'all emotional or anecdotal import.' Expanding his range to many mediums over the decades, Buren has remained true to the stripe motif and to a standardised palette.