OXFORD, UK.- Daniel Buren is one of France’s most renowned artists. More than thirty years after his first exhibition at the Gallery, Modern Art Oxford is delighted to be working with the artist on the creation of a new exhibition. Daniel Buren: Intervention II, works in sity, is on view through January 28, 2007.

Since 1965, when he first began working with what has become his signature motif of alternating white and coloured stripes of equal and of non-variable sizes, Buren has created dramatic and thought-provoking interventions in museums and public spaces around the world. Hugely influential on younger generations of artists, Buren’s work remains embedded in a refined pictorial sensibility of colour and form, which he uses to engage the viewer in a visual and physical dialogue with space.

Although Buren has produced innumerable projects internationally, including major shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2005 and the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 2002, his work remains little known in Britain. His first exhibition in a public gallery in this country was held at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford (since 2002 Modern Art Oxford) in 1973. Buren suspended a series of vertically-striped canvases from the superstructure of the large upstairs gallery, to create a sequence of flowing vertical planes that cut across the space at right angles to the gallery’s outer walls.

The exhibition at Modern Art Oxford presents a new work that creates a permeable space, in which elements of the Gallery’s architecture are multiplied. The exhibition also features drawings and a series of “film-souvenirs” relating to earlier projects realised by the artist.

The exhibition is part of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary art from France taking place in galleries, museums and art centres in and around London in Autumn 2006. Modern Art Oxford is one of only two venues outside London involved in Paris Calling.

Daniel Buren will be in conversation with Michael Craig-Martin at Modern Art Oxford on Wednesday 24 January, 6.30pm. Please contact the Gallery for details on +44 (0)1865 722733. To coincide with the exhibition, Modern Art Oxford is producing a fully illustrated book including an interview with Daniel Buren and documentation of the artist’s projects realised in the UK.