Daniel Buren signs the poster for the 64th edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi

Daniel Buren, one of the leading exponents of the international art scene, signs the Spoleto64 manifesto: an image that recalls the famous vertical stripes, the artist's stylistic code, which were the protagonists to Spoleto already in 1980, on the occasion of the project "Incontri 1980: 20 interventions by contemporary artists to Spoleto" for which Buren dyed to White/pink stripes are the stairs of the Umbrian town.

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"The stripes are the result of a natural process that began around 1964, when I was painting abstract works characterized by from wide vertical stripes. In the fall of 1965, at a flea market in Paris, I stumbled upon cotton to stripes, the one used to make pillows and mattresses, similar to the marquees on the terraces of cafes and restaurants. I was immediately drawn to from that material, perhaps because it resembled the paintings I was making from over a year. I bought a lot of meters of fabric – the width of the stripes was 8.7 centimeters – and I started to work on it."

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In 2022 Daniel Buren will be among the guest artists of Spoleto65, with an in situ installation for the foyer of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, commissioned by the Festival dei Due Mondi. To distort, to redefine space through theopera of art that to In turn, thanks to the space in which it is immersed, it takes on a form and an identity: this is the hallmark of Daniel Buren. Inventor of the term in situ, Buren intervenes on the exhibition space, modifies it and gives it new value, investigating the depths of the dialectic between theopera and its context, between the artist and his audience.