Neuf couleurs au vent
(Nine colours in the wind)
The work of art was commissioned as part of the exhibition Vent et eau, held in Québec city in 1984, to commemorate the arrival of Jacques Cartier 450 years earlier. These two natural elements were alternately integrated into the work by Daniel Buren, in 1975, on Lake Wannsee, in Berlin, where nine sails are bent to the masts of nine ships.
The flag arrangement follows the alphabetical progression of the colours, from the centre to the extremities. The colours are identified with the flags: nine flags… nine colours.
Municipal public art collection
Title
Neuf couleurs au vent (Nine colours in the wind)
Artist
Daniel Buren
Materials
Aluminum and nylon
Completed
1984
Installed
September 1996, to mark the 11es Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal, held by the Montréal International Centre of Contemporary Art
Acquisition
Purchased in 2001 by the Ville de Montréal with the participation of Loto-Québec
Location
Place Urbain-Baudreau-Graveline
Plateau-Mont-Royal borough
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