Christian Boltanski
(French, 1944–2021)
Biography
Christian Boltanski Christian Boltanski is a contemporary French Conceptual artist best known for his photographic installations. The artist explores life, death, and memory in his practice, often focusing on the Holocaust as he blurs the boundaries between truth and fiction. “You can tell the truth more truthfully than with the truth itself,” he once quipped. For his seminal work La traversée de la vie (2015), Boltanski used the same photographs as he had in 1971 for Album des photos de la Famille D.—the images were enlarged and printed on fabric and illuminated by hangings lightbulbs, inviting the viewer to walk through them. Born on September 6, 1944 in Paris, France to a Jewish father, the impact of World War II loomed throughout the artist's life. Boltanski often has objects stand in for absent subjects, bringing spirituality and meditation to his practice and following in the footsteps of Conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Joseph Beuys. His work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Boltanski currently lives and works in Malakoff, France.
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.jpg "Départ - Arrivée (Departure - Arrival), 2015")
.jpg "Crépuscule (Twilight), 2015")
.jpg "Animitas (Mères Mortes), 2017")
.jpg "Sans Souci (from the portfolio")
.jpg "Reserve of Dead Swiss (One's Not Dead), 1991")
Christian Boltanski
Ensemble de 2 oeuvres "Monument polaroïd", 1983–1985
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