Paris enriches its urban landscape with a new creation by renowned French visual artist Daniel Buren. Designed specifically at the request of Reiffers Initiatives to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its mentorship program, this work takes its place within the broader redevelopment of Rue des Acacias. Buren transforms architecture into an artistic medium, inviting viewers to reconsider their perception of urban space.
For the 2025 mentorship exhibition, Daniel Buren presents “The Acacias Façade”, an in situ work created across the entire building of the endowment fund. It features a succession of large isosceles triangles made using his iconic white stripes, each measuring 8.7 cm in width. The façade, thus clad and articulated in a zigzag or stepped pattern, unfolds from a diagonal line drawn from the storefront window up to the top of the building.
Exactly sixty years ago, in September 1965, Daniel Buren discovered at the Marché Saint-Pierre in Paris a striped awning fabric with alternating white and colored bands—a discovery that would change his life, and that of the visual arts. These vertical white and colored stripes became the artist’s distinctive signature.
