- Venue: Gallery 1 and UMI Hall at Daegu Art Museum
- Period: Tuesday, 12 July, 2022 - Sunday, 29 January, 2023
- Artist: Daniel Buren
- Number and Types of Works: 24 artworks including installations, paintings, and films
A solo exhibition of Daniel Buren, one of France’s leading contemporary artists, is being held at the Daegu Art Museum. Organized for the first time by a public art museum in Korea, Buren’s film Out of Time, Out of Sight and his large-scale installation piece Like Child’s Play make an appearance for the first time in Asia.
This exhibition of Buren, which focuses on the specific relationship between work and space, welcomes visitors to three main spaces. First, in the UMI Hall, visitors will encounter a white room located in a wide and long hall. Next, inside, this white room the large-scale installation Like Child’s Play, which has been displayed only four times in France, Italy, Australia and Mexico, will be installed. When entering the room, visitors will face geometric modules in the form of tetrahedrons, cubes, cylinders, pyramids, or arch-shaped pieces that are up to six meters high, and can walk through the symmetric arrangement which resembles a giant architectural game.
Daniel Buren has built his own world of work, criticizing the modernist art system and rejecting the frame of art trends that provoke fixed perspectives. In other words, he is an artist who pursues creativity, experiments, and critical logic. The Daegu Art Museum invites visitors to take the time to purely contemplate the essence of art through the determined and refined works of Daniel Buren.