Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938 – )
In the early 1980s, Giuliano Gori extended the first invitation to Daniel Buren who, due to ongoing projects, was unable to participate in the experiment that was taking shape on the hills of Santomato. Twenty years later,when the two men met at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the timing was right, and Buren came to Celle in 2004. He chose a site adjacent to the park and the olive grove: an enclosed space that had once housed a disused tennis court. Buren retained the existing exterior fencing and tall lighting poles, simply replacing the lights with round mirrors oriented towards the work in a way that each reflected an isometric perspective of its structure. The artist followed the construction of the project in all its phases, which was slowed down by two windstorms that damaged the construction site.
