100 arrows are located around Gennevilliers,
pointing out six different 'paths'
to the theater.

From September 2007, follow the arrows to the théâtre2gennevilliers
from the Gabriel Péri-Asnières Gennevilliers metro station,
the Lycée Galilée,
the neighbourhoods of Luth, the Village, Chanteraines
and Barbaniers.
The last route is an extension of  metro line 13.
It will be installed
at the end of 2008,
when the work is complete.

The arrows are made by fifteen first- and second-year students and their teachers on the professional diploma course in plastics, at the Lycée Galilée.
 

Painted red and white, ach arrow is cast in a mould, using pouring and polyurethane foaming techniques.
Each arrow is 60.9 cm long, 8.7 cm thick, and weighs 2.25 kg.
As in all Buren's work, each stripe is 8.7 cm wide.
The arrows are fixed 2.50 metres
above ground level.

Born in1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Daniel Buren first developed his celebrated 8.7-cm white and coloured stripes in 1965. Today, the stripes are the artistic language through which he rethinks space and the essential act of painting itself. In 1966, he was a founder member of BMTP with Olivier Mosset, Niele Toroni and Michel Parmentier. The group's emphasis on repetition and new forms of abstraction proved highly influential.
Today, Buren's works are famous all over the world.

Daniel Buren:
'You want to visit the theatre in a new and different way, even for something other than a show. But you still have to find it!'

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