The devices of Excentrique(s), work in situ

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Device no. 4
An aggregate of circles in five different sizes (from 2 to 6.5 m in diameter), linked tangentially one to another to form a sort of suspended carpet, fills as much of the nave as permitted by safety regulations, i.e. approximately 8.500 square metres.
The circles are covered with transparent coloured plastic film and supported by tubular legs (9 x 9 cm section) in varying numbers depending on the diameter of each circle. These posts (1,300 in all) give the impression of a forest, originally black and white, but transformed by the light shining through the coloured circles.
The plastic film is in four colours (the only colours available for this material): pale blue, golden yellow, orange and soft green. These colours are positioned so that they are spread over the whole surface in equal proportions: 95 blue, 94 yellow, 94 orange, and 94 green circles, making a total of 377. There is an extra blue circle at the end, as if to start the next cycle.
The coloured circles are placed at a height of 2.5 to 2.9 m. The empty spaces between them are used to adjust the entire device visually and to give access to the circles if they need cleaning (to remove pigeon droppings, for example).

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Daniel Buren
Paris, 5 March 2012

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