Article: Daniel Buren at Bortolami-Dayan.(NEW YORK)

This installation of eleven 1966 canvases by Daniel Buren was a revelation, a kind of missing link in the career of the French painter turned conceptualist. Under the influence of Art Informel, Buren had liberally splashed and stained his canvases in the early 1960s, gradually confining his forms to vertical stripes by mid-decade. But like so many artists of his generation, he had by then come to feel that the act of painting was itself problematic: executed in the hermetic space of the artist's studio, it was private and essentially apolitical. So in 1966, Buren purchased some bolts of canvas printed with colored stripes, discrete lengths of which he stretched and framed. ...

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