La Cabane éclatée n.3, travail situé

La Cabane éclatée n. 3, travail situé (Exploded Cabin # 3, situated work), 1984, in the Castello’s collection, is one of the earliest works in this series. The installation, created using panels painted with white and yellow stripes, is organized around the relationship between the square and its possible subdivisions into triangles, based on a geometry that can be identified as part of the Castello’s decorative layout. Even the double height of the installation has been established in conformity with the building’s courtly spaces. In addition, the work’s response to the grandeur of the Castello’s baroque rooms is the vertical repetition of similar sequences of “doors” and “windows,” almost as if there were two superimposed rooms. As in the other works in the series, each opening corresponds dynamically to additional elements installed on the wall. Developing an unusual dialogue, the work thus emphasizes the museum’s dual function, as a historic environment and as a place dedicated to contemporary art. Buren created this work for the inaugural exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli in 1984.