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Christian Boltanski

May 18, 2023

Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.[1]

Christian Boltanski
Boltanski in 2016
Born(1944-09-06)6 September 1944
Paris, France
Died14 July 2021(2021-07-14) (aged 76)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forSculpture, painting, photography, installation art
MovementConceptual art

Early life

Boltanski was born in Paris on 6 September 1944.[2][3] His father, Étienne Alexandre Boltanski,[4] a physician, was Jewish and had come to France from Russia, while Marie-Elise Ilari-Guérin, his Roman Catholic mother originated from Corsica, descended from Ukrainian Jews.[5] His Jewish heritage was a large influence in Boltanski's household. During World War II, while living in Paris, his father escaped deportation by hiding in a space under the floorboards of the family apartment for a year and a half. Christian grew up with this knowledge, and his early experiences with wartime affairs deeply affected him. These experiences would influence his artwork later on.[6][7][8] He dropped out of school at age 12.

Early career

Boltanski began creating art in the late 1950s, but did not rise to prominence until almost a decade later through a few short, avant-garde films and some published notebooks in which he referenced his childhood.[9] He had his first one-man exhibition at the Théâtre Le Ranelagh in May 1968.[2][3] His earliest works included imagery of ideal families and imaginary lifestyles (something Boltanski always lacked), made to display as if they were in museums.[3]

Installation art

 
Le Lycée Chases (1986-1987) at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022

Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations in 1986 with light as essential concept. Tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated[10] photographs (e.g. Le Lycée Chases, 1986–1987), photographs of Jewish schoolchildren taken in Vienna in 1931,[11] 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 Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel in 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.[12] 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."[13] In 1971 Boltanski produced his installation, L' Album de la famille D. 1939-1964.[14]

Additionally, his enormous installation titled "No Man's Land" (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten.[15]

Exhibitions

Boltanski participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world.[16] 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.[16]

In 2002, Boltanski made the installation Totentanz II, a shadow installation with copper figures, for the underground Centre for International Light Art (CILA) in Unna, Germany.[17] Nine years later, the Es Baluard museum in Mallorca exhibited Signatures from July to September 2011. The installation was conceived by Boltanski specifically for Es Baluard and which is focused on the memory of the workers who in the 17th century built the museum's walls.[18][19]

In the winter of 2017–2018, Boltanski created a new installation for the Oude Kerk, titled After. It tackled the theme of what will come after life has come to an end. The exhibition was shown from November 2017 until April 2018.[20]

Personal life

Boltanski was married to Annette Messager, who is also a contemporary artist, until his death. They chose not to have children.[2] They lived in Malakoff, outside Paris. He was the brother of sociologist Luc Boltanski and uncle of writer Christophe Boltanski.[21]

Boltanski died on 14 July 2021 at Hôpital Cochin in Paris. He was 76, and suffered from an unspecified illness prior to his death.[2][22]


Following his death, the artist’s moral rights — which prerogatives are the right of disclosure, the right of respect of the works’ integrity and the right to

authorship - were passed on to Angelika Markul.

Gallery

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    Sound installation The Whispers, Folkestone Triennal (2008)

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    Vanitas, Salzburger Dom 2008.

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    Signatures, 2011.

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    The inhabitants of the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan in 1939 (1998) – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.

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    Chance, 2014.

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    Christian Boltanski, 1990.

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    Christian Boltanski, 2015.

Prizes

  • 1994 Kunstpreis Aachen[23]
  • 1996 Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
  • 2007 billionéateurs sans frontières award for visual arts by Cultures France[24]
  • 2006 Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association[3][24]
  • 2001 Goslarer Kaiserring, Goslar, Germany[3][24]
  • 2001 Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany[3][24]
  • 2006 Praemium Imperiale award for sculpture, Japan[25]

Works and installations

References

  1. ^ "Christian Boltanski | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Top contemporary French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)". Artforum. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  4. ^ Boltanski, Christophe (19 August 2015). La cache. ISBN 9782234076747.
  5. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (17 July 2021). "Christian Boltanski, Whose Art Installations Dazzled, Dies at 76". New York Times. Vol. 170, no. 59122. p. B12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. ^ Christian Boltanski au Grand Palais, 12 January 2012, accessed 26 June 2019
  7. ^ BoltanskiBUENOS AIRES, bio(graphy), on the website of the 2012 project, accessed 26 June 2019
  8. ^ Christian Boltanski: Documentation and Reiteration, Guggenheim Museum, accessed 26 June 2019
  9. ^ "Christian Boltanski, 'The Reserve of Dead Swiss' 1990". Tate. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  10. ^ Borger, Irene. . BOMB Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013. IB: This touches on the newer work, you have rephotographed and enlarged a portrait of a high school class, in such a way that the information in the pictures is no longer very specific and detailed. You're really asking the spectator to fill it in. CB: You mean the Lycee Chases? CB The less information you have, the more open the work, the more you can think about it.
  11. ^ "Exchange: Monument to the Lycée Chases". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  12. ^ Christian Boltanski: About this artist, Oxford University Press
  13. ^ Monument (Odessa) Jewish Museum
  14. ^ "Christian Boltanski". Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  15. ^ McAdams, Shane (8 July 2010). "CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man's Land". The Brooklyn Rail (July–August 2010).
  16. ^ a b "Christian Boltanski biography" (PDF). Marian Goodman gallery.[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ a b Baumgardner, Julie (31 July 2014). "Everything Is Illuminated: Meet Germany's Centre for International Light Art". Art in America. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Christian Boltanski Describes 'Signatures'". Es Baluard. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  19. ^ Díaz-Guardiola, Javier (7 July 2011). "Boltanski: "Artista es el que provoca emociones"". ABC. Madrid. Retrieved 14 July 2021. (in Spanish)
  20. ^ a b "Christian Boltanski". Wall Street International. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  21. ^ Bridenne, Miriam (3 September 2015). "La Cache". New York City: Albertine. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  22. ^ "L'artiste plasticien Christian Boltanski est mort". Le Monde. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  23. ^ "Kunstpreis Aachen". Stadt Aachen. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  24. ^ "Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)". Artforum. 14 July 2021. from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  25. ^ "L'Homme qui tousse". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 14 July 2021. (in French)
  26. ^ "Inventory of Objects Belonging to a Young Man of Oxford: Christian Boltanski". Modern Art Oxford. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  27. ^ Brenson, Michael (9 December 1988). "Review/Art: Mechanics of Memory". New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  28. ^ "Monument to the Lycée Chases". University of Michigan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  29. ^ "Réserve de Suisses morts, 1991". Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  30. ^ "Watch Christian Boltanski : Dead or Alive ? (Documentary Film)". www.thedarkroomrumour.com. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  31. ^ Spears, Dorothy (9 May 2010). "Exploring Mortality With Clothes and a Claw". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  32. ^ Cumming, Laura (17 January 2010). "Christian Boltanski: Personnes". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  33. ^ "Christian Boltanski, Animitas". Noguchi Museum. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  34. ^ "Mysteries, by Christian Boltanski". Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. from the original on 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 with Christian Boltanski 1989, 60 portrait photographs of C.B next to his works in his studio, by BRACHA, 1990, and notebook fragments 1985-1989]. Artist's book. Paris: BLE Atelier, 1991.
  • 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

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Christian Boltanski.
  • Marian Goodman Gallery
  • Interview in Tate Magazine
  • (In French) Christian Boltanski
  • Exhibitions listed at kunstaspekte.de
  • MoMA profile
  • Magasin 3: Christian Boltanski
  • The Jewish Museum

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Christian Liberte Boltanski 6 September 1944 14 July 2021 was a French sculptor photographer painter and film maker He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style 1 Christian BoltanskiBoltanski in 2016Born 1944 09 06 6 September 1944Paris FranceDied14 July 2021 2021 07 14 aged 76 Paris FranceNationalityFrenchKnown forSculpture painting photography installation artMovementConceptual art Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Installation art 4 Exhibitions 5 Personal life 6 Gallery 7 Prizes 8 Works and installations 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life EditBoltanski was born in Paris on 6 September 1944 2 3 His father Etienne Alexandre Boltanski 4 a physician was Jewish and had come to France from Russia while Marie Elise Ilari Guerin his Roman Catholic mother originated from Corsica descended from Ukrainian Jews 5 His Jewish heritage was a large influence in Boltanski s household During World War II while living in Paris his father escaped deportation by hiding in a space under the floorboards of the family apartment for a year and a half Christian grew up with this knowledge and his early experiences with wartime affairs deeply affected him These experiences would influence his artwork later on 6 7 8 He dropped out of school at age 12 Early career EditBoltanski began creating art in the late 1950s but did not rise to prominence until almost a decade later through a few short avant garde films and some published notebooks in which he referenced his childhood 9 He had his first one man exhibition at the Theatre Le Ranelagh in May 1968 2 3 His earliest works included imagery of ideal families and imaginary lifestyles something Boltanski always lacked made to display as if they were in museums 3 Installation art Edit Le Lycee Chases 1986 1987 at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022 Boltanski began creating mixed media materials installations in 1986 with light as essential concept Tin boxes altar like construction of framed and manipulated 10 photographs e g Le Lycee Chases 1986 1987 photographs of Jewish schoolchildren taken in Vienna in 1931 11 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 Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel in 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 12 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 13 In 1971 Boltanski produced his installation L Album de la famille D 1939 1964 14 Additionally his enormous installation titled No Man s Land 2010 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten 15 Exhibitions EditBoltanski participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world 16 Among others he had solo exhibitions at the New Museum 1988 the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Magasin 3 in Stockholm the La Maison Rouge gallery Institut Mathildenhohe the Kewenig Galerie The Musee d Art et d Histoire du Judaisme and many others 16 In 2002 Boltanski made the installation Totentanz II a shadow installation with copper figures for the underground Centre for International Light Art CILA in Unna Germany 17 Nine years later the Es Baluard museum in Mallorca exhibited Signatures from July to September 2011 The installation was conceived by Boltanski specifically for Es Baluard and which is focused on the memory of the workers who in the 17th century built the museum s walls 18 19 In the winter of 2017 2018 Boltanski created a new installation for the Oude Kerk titled After It tackled the theme of what will come after life has come to an end The exhibition was shown from November 2017 until April 2018 20 Personal life EditBoltanski was married to Annette Messager who is also a contemporary artist until his death They chose not to have children 2 They lived in Malakoff outside Paris He was the brother of sociologist Luc Boltanski and uncle of writer Christophe Boltanski 21 Boltanski died on 14 July 2021 at Hopital Cochin in Paris He was 76 and suffered from an unspecified illness prior to his death 2 22 Following his death the artist s moral rights which prerogatives are the right of disclosure the right of respect of the works integrity and the right toauthorship were passed on to Angelika Markul Gallery Edit Sound installation The Whispers Folkestone Triennal 2008 Vanitas Salzburger Dom 2008 Signatures 2011 The inhabitants of the Hotel de Saint Aignan in 1939 1998 Musee d Art et d Histoire du Judaisme Chance 2014 Christian Boltanski 1990 Christian Boltanski 2015 Prizes Edit1994 Kunstpreis Aachen 23 1996 Rolandpreis fur Kunst im offentlichen Raum 2007 billioneateurs sans frontieres award for visual arts by Cultures France 24 2006 Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association 3 24 2001 Goslarer Kaiserring Goslar Germany 3 24 2001 Kunstpreis given by Nord LB Braunschweig Germany 3 24 2006 Praemium Imperiale award for sculpture Japan 25 Works and installations Edit1969 L Homme qui tousse 26 1973 Inventory of Objects Belonging to a Young Man of Oxford 27 1988 Christian Boltanski Lessons of Darkness 28 1989 Monument to the Lycee Chases 29 1990 Reserve of Dead Swiss Reserve de Suisses morts 30 1994 Christian Boltanski Dead or Alive 31 2002 Totentanz II 17 2010 No Man s Land 32 2010 People Personnes 33 2014 Animitas 34 2017 After 20 2017 Mysteries 35 References Edit Christian Boltanski artnet www artnet com Retrieved 22 July 2016 a b c d Top contemporary French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76 France 24 Agence France Presse 14 July 2021 Retrieved 14 July 2021 a b c d e f Christian Boltanski 1944 2021 Artforum 14 July 2021 Retrieved 14 July 2021 Boltanski Christophe 19 August 2015 La cache ISBN 9782234076747 Genzlinger Neil 17 July 2021 Christian Boltanski Whose Art Installations Dazzled Dies at 76 New York Times Vol 170 no 59122 p B12 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 17 July 2021 Christian Boltanski au Grand Palais 12 January 2012 accessed 26 June 2019 BoltanskiBUENOS AIRES bio graphy on the website of the 2012 project accessed 26 June 2019 Christian Boltanski Documentation and Reiteration Guggenheim Museum accessed 26 June 2019 Christian Boltanski The Reserve of Dead Swiss 1990 Tate Retrieved 22 July 2016 Borger Irene Christian Boltanski BOMB Magazine Archived from the original on 16 April 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2013 IB This touches on the newer work you have rephotographed and enlarged a portrait of a high school class in such a way that the information in the pictures is no longer very specific and detailed You re really asking the spectator to fill it in CB You mean the Lycee Chases CB The less information you have the more open the work the more you can think about it Exchange Monument to the Lycee Chases exchange umma umich edu Retrieved 10 November 2020 Christian Boltanski About this artist Oxford University Press Monument Odessa Jewish Museum Christian Boltanski Retrieved 31 July 2022 McAdams Shane 8 July 2010 CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man s Land The Brooklyn Rail July August 2010 a b Christian Boltanski biography PDF Marian Goodman gallery permanent dead link a b Baumgardner Julie 31 July 2014 Everything Is Illuminated Meet Germany s Centre for International Light Art Art in America Retrieved 14 July 2021 Christian Boltanski Describes Signatures Es Baluard Retrieved 14 July 2021 Diaz Guardiola Javier 7 July 2011 Boltanski Artista es el que provoca emociones ABC Madrid Retrieved 14 July 2021 in Spanish a b Christian Boltanski Wall Street International 19 December 2017 Retrieved 14 July 2021 Bridenne Miriam 3 September 2015 La Cache New York City Albertine Retrieved 14 July 2021 L artiste plasticien Christian Boltanski est mort Le Monde 14 July 2021 Retrieved 14 July 2021 Kunstpreis Aachen Stadt Aachen Retrieved 14 July 2021 a b c d Marian Goodman Gallery Marian Goodman Gallery Retrieved 4 May 2011 Christian Boltanski 1944 2021 Artforum 14 July 2021 Archived from the original on 14 July 2021 Retrieved 17 July 2021 L Homme qui tousse Centre Pompidou Retrieved 14 July 2021 in French Inventory of Objects Belonging to a Young Man of Oxford Christian Boltanski Modern Art Oxford Retrieved 14 July 2021 Brenson Michael 9 December 1988 Review Art Mechanics of Memory New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 17 July 2021 Monument to the Lycee Chases University of Michigan Museum of Art Retrieved 14 July 2021 Reserve de Suisses morts 1991 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art Retrieved 14 July 2021 Watch Christian Boltanski Dead or Alive Documentary Film www thedarkroomrumour com Retrieved 21 April 2023 Spears Dorothy 9 May 2010 Exploring Mortality With Clothes and a Claw The New York Times Retrieved 14 July 2021 Cumming Laura 17 January 2010 Christian Boltanski Personnes The Guardian London Retrieved 14 July 2021 Christian Boltanski Animitas Noguchi Museum Retrieved 14 July 2021 Mysteries by Christian Boltanski Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Archived from the original on 17 July 2021 Retrieved 17 July 2021 Further reading EditTamar Garb Didier Semin Donald Kuspit Christian Boltanski Phaidon London 1997 Bracha L Ettinger Matrix et le Voyage a Jerusalem de C B Conversation Interview with Christian Boltanski 1989 60 portrait photographs of C B next to his works in his studio by BRACHA 1990 and notebook fragments 1985 1989 Artist s book Paris BLE Atelier 1991 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 Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Christian Boltanski Marian Goodman Gallery Interview in Tate Magazine ICP Christian Boltanski Folkestone Triennial Christian Boltanski In French Christian Boltanski Exhibitions listed at kunstaspekte de MoMA profile Art Icono Magasin 3 Christian Boltanski The Jewish Museum Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Christian Boltanski amp oldid 1150977483, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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