Transcript Christian Boltanski - Digital Gallery

Christian Boltanski
Sculptor, Photographer, Installation
Artist
Biography
• Born September 6, 1944 in Paris. His father
was Jewish and of Ukrainian heritage and his
mother was Corsican.
• Began creating art at age 12.
• Sometimes collaborates with wife Annette
Messager
Art Work
• Many of his works are meant to memorialize
those who died anonymously.
• Known for Holocaust remembrance pieces.
• Utilizes light in sculptures and installations.
• Several of his projects have actual lost
property from public spaces like railway
stations.
Shadows
Shadows
• Video removed for file size.
Monument: The Children Of Dijon
Reserve: Dead Swiss
Reserve: Canada and Reliquery
Time
Reserve of the German Family
Resources
Information:
Semin, Didier and Christian Boltanski. Christian Boltanski. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.
Studio: Christian Boltanski. Dec 2002. The Tate Magazine. 9 April 2009.
<http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue2/boltanski.htm>.
Images (in presentation order):
Boltanski, Christian. Shadows. 1990. Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan. 9 April 2009.
<http://emmiephant.blogspot.com/2008/04/christian-boltanski.html. >
Boltanski, Christian. Monument: The Children of Dijon. 1986. Salpetriere Chapel, Paris. 9 April 2009.
<http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/awlee/art242/kiefer/image5.html>.
Boltanski, Christian. Reserve: The Dead Swiss. 1989. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. 9 April 2009.
<http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/awlee/art242/kiefer/image3.html>.
Boltanski, Christian. Reserve: Canada and the Reliquery. 1991. Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto. 9 April
2009.
<http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/awlee/art242/kiefer/image4.html>.
Boltanski, Christian. Time. 2001.
<http://bhlogiston.schauecker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/boltanski_zeit.jpg >.
Bolanski, Christian. Reserve of the German Family. 1991.
<http://www.nrw-museum.de/output/controller.aspx?cid=101&detail=2&detail2=12>.