Buren - Place des Terreaux Lyon Yellow

"Movement - Springing: From a Fountain, The Others"

Permanent in situ work December 1994

Terreaux Square, Lyon, France

Contemporary developments of the Place des Terreaux in Lyon, Buren and Drevet (1994, then 2018-2019)

Like his most controversial public commission, Les Deux Plateaux, for the main courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris, commissioned in 1986 by the Minister of Culture at the time, Jack Lang, and President François Mitterrand, the Place des Terreaux in Lyon was redeveloped in 1994 by Christian Drevet, architect and urban planner, Laurent Fachard, lighting designer, and Daniel Buren, artist, with in particular an orthogonal alternation of 68 mini-fountains composed of jets of water at variable height, lit, on granite slabs, bordered by 14 pillars of black and white Buren stripes, as well as a grid of the same stripes across the entire square. This framework is punctuated by the façade of the Palais Saint-Pierre. At night, a play of light is created with the mini-fountains, the façades, the pillars and the surroundings of the square. The Terreaux were then elevated to the rank of “work of art” by Michel Noir, mayor at the time.

© Daniel Buren/ADAGP, Paris