藝術愛好者們應該期待意想不到的展覽,因為當代藝術家丹尼爾·布倫的藝術展就是這樣的展覽。

Art lovers should expect the unexpected in the latest offering of the ground-breaking "Monumenta" exhibit, as contemporary artist Daniel Buren brings the Grand Palais' lofty, luminous ceiling for the first time, literally,down to earth.

"Monumenta", the hugely-popular annual installation project that's in its fifth year, dares an artist of global fame, to "move into" the nave of one of the French capital’s most momentous buildings, and own it.

Daniel Buren says, "This work is specially done to catch the light and to make it visible. The use of the color make absolutely visible the light which goes through this ceiling," says Buren.

With a space measuring 13,500 square meters and 45 meters high, it's a dizzying feat for any artist, but

especially for Buren.

He's a minimalist artist whose trademark is vertical stripes at a measly 8.7 centimeters wide!

Daniel Buren says, "This situation which is quite low gives a human scale in this gigantic space where in fact the human scale is completely out of consideration. When we go here, we are completely overwhelmed by the architecture."

Last year's Leviathan shaped gargantua by British artist Anish Kapoor is a hard act to follow, scraping the nave’s ceiling, and attracting more than 270,000 people in six and a half weeks.

But as ever, Buren, who won 2007's Praemium Imperiale award, widely called the Nobel Prize for art, he's thought outside the box.