Monumenta

2012
Nave of Paris’s Grand Palais
Plastic film, steel

Another site specific installation, as Buren designed for the specific dimensions of the space. It consists of a canopy of floating horizontal circles of various sizes and heights each touching the next. The frame of each circle is covered blue, yellow, orange or green translucent plastic film. They are supported by vertical posts with alternating sides of white and black, creating the illusion of stripes. Around the installation there are circle mirrors on the ground, which provide a change in context and perspective of the same environment that viewers have already witnesses. The colored film and poles created light, color and shadow that took over the viewers environment, and depending on ones perspective and use of the mirror there is a change in context of what this work represents to different individuals.

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