Christian Boltanski
French sculptor and photographer
Christian Liberté Boltanski was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style. Wikipedia
Born: September 6, 1944, Paris, France
Died: July 14, 2021 (age 76 years), Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Periods: Contemporary art and Conceptual art
Spouse: Annette Messager
Siblings: Luc Boltanski
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Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker.
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Christian Boltanski ... This exhibition is a retrospective of the work of Christian Boltanski, who has dealt with the themes of history, memory, death and absence ...
Christian Boltanski Christian Boltanski is a contemporary French Conceptual artist best known for his photographic installations. The artist explores life, ...
His work deals with the concepts of loss, memory, childhood, and death, often functioning as memorials or shrines to collective cultural rituals and events.
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker.
Exhibitions · Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New · Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present · Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now.
Jul 16, 2021 · Artist who made his name through a tireless engagement with death in work based around discarded objects and images.
Sep 8, 2021 · Boltanski was a multimedia artist whose preoccupation with memory, the holocaust, mortality, and mourning earned him a reputation as a ...
Dec 14, 2021 · It's a strange work, and strangely off-putting. While formally it draws on the language of Minimalist sculpture by the likes of Richard Serra ...
Since the late 1960s, Christian Boltanski (b. 1944, Paris) has worked with photographs collected from ordinary and often ephemeral sources, endowing the ...