Two of the world’s finest installation artists are now on view in Chicago: James Turrell, an American, recently designed a permanent structure at the University of Illinois, and French artist Daniel Buren has created a site-specific installation, Crossing Through the Colors, for the Arts Club. Buren began doing paintings of his trademark stripes–8.7 centimeters wide, inspired by a piece of awning fabric–in the 60s. By the mid-80s he was creating installations, including striped columns at the Palais Royale in Paris that interacted with the courtyard’s baroque architecture in a mildly bizarre, thought-provoking way. A video on view at the Arts Club shows a 1980 Chicago installation in which Buren put his stripes on the doors of Metra trains that ran past a window in an Art Institute gallery.
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James Turrell
