Christian Boltanski
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Christian Boltanski in 1990.
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Born | Paris, France |
6 September 1944
Nationality | French |
Known for | Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Installation art |
Christian Boltanski (born 1944) is a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.
He is the brother of Luc Boltanski and the partner of Annette Messager.
Installation art
In 1986, Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations with light as essential concept. Tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated[1] photographs (e.g. Chases School, 1986–1987), photographs of Jewish schoolchildren taken in Vienna in 1931, used as a forceful reminder of mass murder of Jews by the Nazis, all those elements and materials used in his work are used in order to represent deep contemplation regarding reconstruction of past. While creating Reserve (exhibition at Basel, Museum Gegenwartskunst, 1989), Boltanski filled rooms and corridors with worn clothing items as a way of inciting profound sensation of human tragedy at concentration camps. As in his previous works, objects serve as relentless reminders of human experience and suffering.[2] His piece, Monument (Odessa), uses six photographs of Jewish students in 1939 and lights to resemble Yahrzeit candles to honor and remember the dead. "My work is about the fact of dying, but it's not about the Holocaust itself."[3]
Additionally, his enormous installation titled "No Man's Land" (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten.[4]
Exhibitions
Christian Boltanski has participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world.[5] Among others, he had solo exhibitions at the New Museum (1988), the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the La Maison Rouge gallery, Institut Mathildenhöhe, the Kewenig Galerie, The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme and many others.[5]
From 1 July to 25 September 2011, museum Es Baluard (Mallorca, Spain) exhibited "Signatures", the installation Christian Boltanski conceived specifically for Es Baluard and which is focused on the memory of the workers who in the 17th Century built the museum's walls.
In 2002, Boltanski made the installation "Totentanz II", a Shadow Installation with copper figures, for the underground Centre for International Light Art (www.lichtkunst-unna.de) in Unna, Germany.
Prizes
- 2007 billionéateurs sans frontières award for visual arts by Cultures France[6]
- 2007 Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association[6]
- 2001 Goslarer Kaiserring, Goslar, Germany[6]
- 2001 Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany[6]
References
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- ↑ Christian Boltanski: About this artist, Oxford University Press
- ↑ Monument (Odessa) Jewish Museum
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Further reading
- Tamar Garb, Didier Semin, Donald Kuspit, "Christian Boltanski", Phaidon, London, 1997.
- Lynn Gumpert and Mary Jane Jacob, "Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness," Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988.
- Didier Semin, "Christian Boltanski," Paris, Art Press, 1988.
- Nancy Marmer, "Christian Boltanski: The Uses of Contradiction," "Art in America," October 1989, pp. 168–181, 233–235.
- Lynn Gumpert, "Christian Boltanski," Paris, Flammarion, 1984.
External links
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