Daniel Buren, born 1938, is a French conceptual artist. I like that his work is extremely specific to each site that he displays his art in; the environment and its interaction with the art is just as important as the piece itself. His signature, most recognizable style are the vertical, black-and-color stripes he paints in different environs. I like that just by adding a very simple, straight forward shape to already existing structures, he makes his audience pause and examine what is there with a new eye. My favorite work by him is his “unsolicited street art,” which, if he were not an old French man perhaps would be called graffiti, street art, or vandalism. He likes to put his stripes on bus stop benches, exterior walls of museums, and the like, and I thoroughly appreciate that an older, established artist continues to put his art out into the public sphere without regard to laws. His work is immediately recognizable by boldness and simplicity, a jarring, solid shape of color on a city street or a smooth layer of pigment on an indoor wall. It’s not complex, but is just enough to shake up our everyday perceptions of the world around us.
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