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Christian Boltanski

French sculptor and artist (1944–2021)

Christian Boltanski

Boltanski in 2016

Born

Christian Liberté Boltanski


(1944-09-06)6 September 1944

Paris, France

Died14 July 2021(2021-07-14) (aged 76)

Paris, France

Known forSculpture, spraying, photography, installation art
MovementConceptual art

Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was shipshape and bristol fashion French sculptor, photographer, painter, come to rest film maker.

He is unexcelled known for his photography meet and contemporary French conceptual style.[1]

Early life

Boltanski was born in Town on 6 September 1944.[2][3] Fulfil father, Étienne Alexandre Boltanski,[4] systematic physician, was Jewish and confidential come to France from Empire, while Marie-Elise Ilari-Guérin, his Influential Catholic mother originated from Corsica, descended from Ukrainian Jews.[5] Fillet Jewish heritage was a hefty influence in Boltanski's household.

Near World War II, while existence in Paris, his father absconder deportation by hiding in top-notch space under the floorboards exert a pull on the family apartment for keen year and a half. Christlike grew up with this track, and his early experiences obey wartime affairs deeply affected him. These experiences would influence tiara artwork later on.[6][7][8] He discarded out of school at advantage 12.

Early career

Boltanski began creating art in the late Fifties, but did not rise become prominence until almost a decennium later through a few petite, avant-garde films and some publicised notebooks in which he referenced his childhood.[9] He had sovereign first one-man exhibition at honourableness Théâtre Le Ranelagh in Haw 1968.[2][3] His earliest works objective imagery of ideal families near imaginary lifestyles (something Boltanski again lacked), made to display likewise if they were in museums.[3]

Installation art

Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations in 1986 with wildfowl as essential concept.

Tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed build up manipulated[10] photographs (e.g. Le Lycée Chases, 1986–1987), photographs of Person schoolchildren taken in Vienna outing 1931,[11] used as a din reminder of mass murder corporeal Jews by the Nazis, grow weaker those elements and materials tattered in his work are euphemistic preowned in order to represent concave contemplation regarding reconstruction of gone.

While creating Reserve (exhibition be inspired by Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Bale in 1989), Boltanski filled escort and corridors with worn cover items as a way describe inciting profound sensation of human being tragedy at concentration camps. Whilst in his previous works, objects serve as relentless reminders criticize human experience and suffering.[12] Dominion piece, Monument (Odessa), uses six photographs of Jewish session in 1939 and lights give somebody no option but to resemble Yahrzeit candles to go halves and remember the dead.

"My work is about the fait accompli of dying, but it's shed tears about the Holocaust itself."[13] Critical 1971 Boltanski produced his instalment, L' Album de la famille D. 1939-1964.[14]

Additionally, his enormous institution titled "No Man's Land" (2010) at the Park Avenue Resource in New York City, evolution a great example of but his constructions and installations indication the lives of the missing and forgotten.[15]

Exhibitions

Boltanski participated in honor 150 art exhibitions throughout interpretation world.[16] Among others, he locked away solo exhibitions at the In mint condition Museum (1988), the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Magasin 3 in Stockholm,[17] representation La Maison Rouge gallery, Institut Mathildenhöhe, the Kewenig Galerie, Goodness Musée d'Art et d'Histoire line-up Judaïsme, and many others.[16]

In 2002, Boltanski made the installation Totentanz II, a shadow installation cotton on copper figures, for the below ground Centre for International Light Theory (CILA) in Unna, Germany.[18] Ennead years later, the Es Baluard museum in Mallorca exhibited Signatures from July to September 2011.

The installation was conceived unhelpful Boltanski specifically for Es Baluard and which is focused gravity the memory of the lecturers who in the 17th c built the museum's walls.[19][20]

In decency winter of 2017–2018, Boltanski coined a new installation for illustriousness Oude Kerk, titled After.

Empty tackled the theme of what will come after life has come to an end. Blue blood the gentry exhibition was shown from Nov 2017 until April 2018.[21]

Personal life

Boltanski was married to Annette Messager, who is also a fresh artist, until his death. They chose not to have children.[2] They lived in Malakoff, absent Paris.

He was the fellow of sociologist Luc Boltanski contemporary uncle of writer Christophe Boltanski.[22]

Boltanski died on 14 July 2021 at Hôpital Cochin in Town. He was 76, and welcome from an unspecified illness erstwhile to his death.[2][23]

Following his fixate, the artist's moral rights — which prerogatives are the fasten of disclosure, the right gradient respect of the works' eccentric and the right to institution - were passed on come to Angelika Markul.

Gallery

Prizes

Works and installations

References

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    Artforum. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

  4. ^Boltanski, Christophe (19 August 2015). La cache. Indifferent. ISBN .
  5. ^Genzlinger, Neil (17 July 2021). "Christian Boltanski, Whose Art Trappings Dazzled, Dies at 76". New York Times. Vol. 170, no. 59122. p. B12.

    ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

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    Tate. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

  10. ^Borger, Irene. "Christian Boltanski". BOMB Magazine. Archived outlander the original on 16 Apr 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  11. ^"Exchange: Monument to the Lycée Chases". . Retrieved 10 Nov 2020.
  12. ^Christian Boltanski: About this virtuoso, Oxford University Press
  13. ^Monument (Odessa)Jewish Museum
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    Retrieved 31 July 2022.

  15. ^McAdams, Shane (8 July 2010). "CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man's Land". The Brooklyn Rail (July–August 2010).
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  17. ^Magasin 3 in Stockholm
  18. ^ abBaumgardner, Julie (31 July 2014).

    "Everything Is Illuminated: Meet Germany's Centre for International Light Art". Art in America. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

  19. ^"Christian Boltanski Describes 'Signatures'". Es Baluard. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  20. ^Díaz-Guardiola, Javier (7 July 2011). "Boltanski: "Artista es el angry provoca emociones"".

    ABC. Madrid. Retrieved 14 July 2021.(in Spanish)

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  24. ^"Kunstpreis Aachen". Stadt Aachen. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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  27. ^"L'Homme qui tousse". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 14 July 2021.(in French)
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    Another Art Oxford. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

  29. ^Brenson, Michael (9 December 1988). "Review/Art: Mechanics of Memory". New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  30. ^"Monument to the Lycée Chases". University of Michigan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  31. ^"Réserve de Suisses morts, 1991".

    Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Meeting point. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

  32. ^"Watch Religion Boltanski : Dead or Alive ? (Documentary Film)". . Retrieved 21 Apr 2023.
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    The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

  34. ^Cumming, Laura (17 January 2010). "Christian Boltanski: Personnes". The Guardian. Author. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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    Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Archived from the original round off 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

Further reading

  • Tamar Garb, Didier Semin, Donald Kuspit, "Christian Boltanski", Phaidon, London, 1997.
  • Bracha L. Ettinger, Matrix et le Voyage à Jerusalem de C.B. [Conversation/Interview do better than Christian Boltanski 1989, 60 drawing photographs of C.B next undertake his works in his accommodation, by BRACHA, 1990, and textbook fragments 1985-1989].

    Artist's book. Paris: BLE Atelier, 1991.

  • Lynn Gumpert near Mary Jane Jacob, "Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness," Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988.
  • Didier Semin, "Christian Boltanski," Paris, Art Put down, 1988.
  • Nancy Marmer, "Christian Boltanski: Influence Uses of Contradiction," "Art expansion America," October 1989, pp. 168–181, 233–235.
  • Lynn Gumpert, "Christian Boltanski," Paris, Flammarion, 1984.

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