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Copyright the artist | | | Boltanski, Christian (1944 - ) France
364 Suisses Morts, 1990
364 black and white photographs, light bulbs and electric wire; 0 x 0 cm Conceptualism
UID 102-67
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Biography
French artist born in Paris. Boltanski has spent his artistic life working with the most ephemeral of materials - photographs, newspaper clippings, wires, found snapshots, clothing, candles, light bulbs, - to examine and to mark our transitory passing here on earth. Using the photograph as a central image of his work, Boltanski demonstrates its signficance to our understanding, and shows us how the concept of monuments - typically large stone or bronze sculptures whose permanence is an anchor against forgetting the dead - can be subverted yet still hold significant meaning. Boltanski's Les Suisses morts, dealing with the Holocaust, may be even more meaningful because its fragile materials suggest life's fragility and the lost lives of those who have disappeared from the earth through genocide. Through his use of the photograph in these and other works, Boltanski suggests the power of the photograph to produce in us longing, nostalgia, and melancholy for the lives of those pictured, whether we know they perished in a holocaust or not. Selected exhibitions: 1972 "documenta" 5, Kassel, and in 1977. 1973, first exhibition in the US, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1981, retrospective, ARC, Paris, 1984, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986, "Photography as Performance", The Photographers Gallery, London, 1995, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 1995-96, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela.
Exhibitions
Christian Boltanski (Hamburger Kunsthalle) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany ~
Christian Boltanski (Musée de Grenoble) Musée de Grenoble, France ~
Christian Boltanski (Sala Rekhalde) Sala Rekalde, Spain ~
Christian Boltanski (Whitechapel Art Gallery) Whitechapel Art Gallery, United Kingdom ~
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Christian Boltanski, Inventar Published by Hamburger Kunsthalle
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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