Château de Tours
Work in situ
23 october 2005 to 26 february 2006

 

On the occasion of the CCC’s 25th birthday, Daniel Buren takes possession of the Château de Tours with a site-specific project. This work takes the size and monumentality of the castle into consideration, both its inner and outer parts.

 

After his recent success at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Daniel Buren presents an exceptional work at the heart of the city of Tours.

 

He brings a triangular prism into the castle which size is larger than the building itself. The prism, which does not entirely fit into the plane-parallel structure of the castle, has to go through the walls, both inside and outside. A complex play results from the confrontation between these two volumes – “too big or too small” – and redefines the architectural composition of the place as well as the way we perceive it. The work moves – both physically and visually – the boundaries existing between the outside and the inside, between the art space and the public space.

 

What goes beyond the walls can be seen from the outside, but also, at each floor, from the inside through the windows of the exhibition halls. Some panels embody the way the prism gets into the castle and seem to ignore the spatial organization of the halls and their walls. Color constitutes a key element in this installation.

 

Immersed into a colored work, the viewer finds himself in the middle of a breathtaking art installation which transforms the place as well as it opens and increases points of view. As often in Daniel Buren’s work, this new project shows that an artwork is both what is seeable but also what it enables to see.

 

In partnership with the Exhibition Service of the city of Tours.
Château de Tours – Avenue André Malraux 37000 TOURS