Daniel Buren is a French Conceptual artist best known for his distinctive site-specific installations of alternating stripe patterns. His concept of a “degree zero of painting,” which he developed in the early 1960s, is the artist’s hallmark approach to the conditions of making a work of art. Throughout his work, he often employs simplified patterns as an approach to color and graphics in relation to architecture and space. “My painting, at the limit, can only signify itself,” he once declared. “It is. So much so, and so well, that anyone can make it and claim it.” Born on March 25, 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, he went on to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers ...