Christian Boltanski Sculptor Photographer Installation Artist Biography Born

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

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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. London: Phaidon Press, 1997. Studio: Christian Boltanski. Dec 2002. The Tate Magazine. 9 April 2009. <http: //www. tate. org. uk/magazine/issue 2/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/art 242/kiefer/image 5. html>. Boltanski, Christian. Reserve: The Dead Swiss. 1989. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. 9 April 2009. <http: //www. mtholyoke. edu/courses/awlee/art 242/kiefer/image 3. html>. Boltanski, Christian. Reserve: Canada and the Reliquery. 1991. Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto. 9 April 2009. <http: //www. mtholyoke. edu/courses/awlee/art 242/kiefer/image 4. 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&detail 2=12>.