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Daniel Buren introduced a breath of fresh air into the world of conceptual art with his pioneering site-specific works. Since 1965 he has used regular contrasting stripes that he calls "a seeing tool." The width of the trademark stripes is always a standard 8.7 centimeters. Through the years, he has positioned these stripes with various media on canvas, cloth and objects. Buren gained public attention in 1969 and 1970 by putting up hundreds of unauthorized striped posters in metro stations in Paris and Tokyo. In 1986, his controversial work of striped columns, Two Plateaus, at the Palais Royal courtyard drew great attention and assured his status as a leading artist. Later in the same year he represented France at the Venice Biennale and won the Golden Lion Award. He has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Japan. He says he has come to Japan nearly 200 times since 1970, and continues to question worldwide the nature of artistic conception and perception.
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