For its return to TEFAF Maastricht, Mennour is pleased to present a unique booth featuring Daniel Buren and Anish Kapoor. 

Daniel Buren has designed a unique and totally immersive in situ device which multiplies the existing architecture of the stand. The floor implements the visual tool developed by the artist. Alternating white and gray stripes, 8.7 cm wide, are arranged to produce a geometric design. They complement each other and are reflected in the mirrors installed on the walls to further enhance the space, multiply perspectives and the play of echoes. 

Seven paintings made by Daniel Buren mainly in the Virgin Islands (Caribbean) during 1965 - just before defining his visual tool - are placed between each of the mirrored surfaces, facing three stone sculptures by Anish Kapoor. Carved in monolithic blocks of Italian alabaster and Belgian black granite, these sculptures evoke the theme of duality, both symbolically and formally, by questioning the polarities of the universe: empty space/inhabited space, lightness/density, untreated raw surface/smooth and polished surface. 

Staging a poetic mise en abyme, a loss of reference points, this radical curatorial proposal blurs the boundaries between ephemeral and eternal, fragile and robust, past and present time, painting and sculpture. 

Historical and vibratory, this project embodies Mennour gallery’s vision: to initiate a dialogue between the work of various artists in order to constantly re-evaluate the definition of art.