Lisson Street: Daniel Buren – Pages in situ

This exhibition, as part of the changing season of Lisson Street presentations, charts Daniel Buren’s use of the 8.7cm stripe over almost six decades, from the street to the gallery walls and from the canvas to the book. Exploring the legacy of the artist's famous motif – through art works, archival images of his activism and his publishing output – it begins with Buren’s intervention in Prospect 68 catalogue, an otherwise anonymous spread of green stripes, and his 1969 arrest for pasting up posters around Bern, to protest his non-inclusion in Harald Szeemann’s seminal group show, Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form. Curated and collated by Fraser Muggeridge, a renowned designer of artists’ books, the display attempts an entire history of the stripe as subversive interruption or intervention within books, catalogues, magazines and publications. It will also explore Buren’s notion of creating his works 'in situ' through a recreation of his 1972 billboard work on Shaftesbury Avenue, his many flyposted exhibition announcements and related Affichages Sauvages, as well as in two key striped installations and paintings dating from the 1980s.