Daniel Buren & Anish Kapoor, 2018

Galleria Continua is pleased to publish the catalogue of the exhibition DANIEL BUREN & ANISH KAPOOR in San Gimignano, 2018.


The volume presents the first four-handed work by a unique collaboration of the two artists.

The exhibition route, built through a dialogue between the works by the two artists - starting from earlier works up to the most recent ones - accompanied us to the main hall where the site-specific piece created by Buren and Kapoor was placed for this exceptional event.

«Daniel is very interesting because he has spent 50 or 60 years making works with a kind of singularity, the stripe. So how do you take a single event and keep inventing it and reinventing it and reinventing it for such a long time? It is a heroic kind of project.  I’m a completely different kind of artist. My process is experimental, it’s about trying all sorts of different ways of coming to a certain set of ideas that I’m working with».

Anish Kapoor about Daniel Buren

«I think that Anish is someone who has developed a real progression in his work, starting with almost intimate, essential things. I say essential because at the beginning he worked on coloured pigments, and therefore on colour in its raw state, with these very fine pieces, and also a sensibility that took a very  original form. After that he developed things that are bigger and bigger, even monumental. He is therefore an artist who, little by little, is developing something less intimate».

Daniel Buren about Anish Kapoor