In his installations and mixed-media works, the French artist Christian Boltanski uses photography and found objects to question memory and individuality. He is the brother of Luc Boltanski and the partner of Annette Messager. In return for ownership of the footage, the man will make regular payments until the artist's death. 6' 11 1/8" x 12' 4" x 8 1/2" (211.2 x 375.8 x 21.6 cm). In his art, Christian Boltanski successfully connects aspects of history with deeper questions of human existence. Find more prominent pieces of installation at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. 1988. Christian Boltanski: „El Caso“ Neuer Abschnitt Wer im Düsseldorfer Museum K21 den Raum „El Caso“ betritt, spürt und denkt sogleich: Archiv, Gedenkstätte, Grabkammer, Trauer. Boltanski's early years were marked by the Nazi occupation of France, which forced his father to go into hiding. Christian Boltanski, born in 1944, is a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.Self-taught, he began painting in 1958 but first came to public attention in the late 1960s with short avant-garde films and with the publication of notebooks in which he came to terms with his childhood. Free shipping for many products! Exhibition Highlights Among the largest Boltanski retrospectives ever held in Japan. Boltanski has struck a deal with a professional gambler and art collector. Christian Boltanskis Arbeiten sind in den wichtigsten Kunstsammlungen der Welt – wie dem Museum of Modern Art in New York, der Tate in London oder dem Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris – zu sehen. The Storehouse. Preoccupied with collective memory, mortality, and the passage of time, Christian Boltanski creates paintings, sculptures, films, and mixed-media installations that approach these themes in a range of styles, symbolic to direct. Boltanski is known as one of France’s preeminent contemporary artists. With Archive of German Members of Parliament, Boltanski applies his conceptual approach to the Reichstag Building. Christian Boltanski: - Art Basel 2013 - Art Basel 2016 - Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 - Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 - Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 - art basel miami beach 2014 - Biennale Venedig 2011 Pav - Biennale Venedig 2015 - daad Stipendiat - documenta 8 1987 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 - Eine Geschichte Zeitgenössische Kunst aus dem Centre Pompidou 2016 - Faites vos jeux ! He is a photographer, painter, sculptor, and installation artist. From San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) , Christian Boltanski, Monument (1986), Dye destruction prints, light bulbs, wire, tape, tin, cardboard, a… Im Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte hat er einen Erinnerungsort für die Zwangsarbeiter der Völklinger Hütte geschaffen. The lengths of fabric gathered around the shelves are shroud-like and also evoke the curtain of the crematorium.