![]() ![]() ![]() With Buren’s works this dark place, symbol of the city’s history, comes back to life. In Bergamo, the rooms have historically been used for administration and justice, among fragments of frescoes, like those by Bramante removed from the adjacent Palazzo del Podestà and paintings, like the sixteenth-century Last Supper by Allori. Lorenzo Palmieri, courtesy the artist by Siae 2020) In Illuminare lo spazio, lavori in situ e situati, GAMeC, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo. And in 1986 he received the Golden Lion for the French pavilion. Since the 1980s his installations, always site-specific, have embraced architecture and public art including at a large scale, like in the symbolic colonnade of Les Deux Plateaux at the Palais-Royal in Paris. With white and coloured stripes, and a constant proportion (8.7 cm), it was the recurring motif with which Buren began conquering space. The subject of all his attention was a cloth for sunshades. At the beginning, his painting took the most rigorous path, the conceptual one, reduced to zero degrees of expressiveness. The themes have been showing up again and again in Buren’s work. ![]()
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