Christian Boltanski: Echoes of Memory

Christian Boltanski1944– | French | Sculpture; Installations; Photography

Boltanski is a Frenchman who produces disturbing installations that are gloomy, dimly lit, and mysterious. He often selects relics of lost childhood, death, anonymity, and the Holocaust. Boltanski attempts to create a visual requiem for all innocent victims. He brings a new wistful subject matter, to which he brings a new twist.

Christian Boltanski, Personnes (Persons/Nobodies) (2010). Exhibition view at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, 2014 © Christian Boltanski, ADAGP, Paris, 2021. Courtesy: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Photo: Jorge Brantmayer.

Christian Boltanski, Shadows from the Lessons of Darkness

KEY WORKS: The Reserve of Dead Swiss, 1990 (London, Tate Collection); Gymnasium Chases, 1991 (San Francisco, De Young Museum)