Daniel Buren always keeps himself intensely busy.
This year, he has squeezed in curating Sophie
Calle's show 'Take Care of Yourself' in the French
pavilion of the Venice Biennale and this exhibition
in Pommery's champagne cellars, in addition
to mounting installations of his own.
For the fourth exhibition at the Pommery estate
in Reims, Buren, who is obsessed with the
interaction between artworks and spatial
frameworks, has invited 36 artists to "experiment"
with the caves.
The presentation of art in this environment is
fascinating. Mona Hatoum's mesmerizing 'Web'
(2006) stretches across one of the cellars like
a giant spider's web. Claude Lévêque's installation
'Hymne,' of silver triangles with ghost-like eyes,
recalls Halloween. Tadashi Kawamata's 'Cathedral
of Chairs,' composed of 1,200 wooden chairs,
rises like a dome in the dark, enclosed space.
Sophie Weatherwall's video about her compulsive
eating disorder is startlingly revealing, while
Ann Veronica Janssen's blue and white stars
light up the corridors linking the cellars.

March 29 through November 1, 2007
Place du Général Gouraud
51100 Reims
Booking recommended: +33 (0)3 26 61 62 56