Photography like material

Childhood and death are the two major subjects of the work of Christian Boltanski.
The photographs which they present are framed and lit by small lights which surround the faces. The portraits become icons. It installs in large rooms of the thousands of old clothes as a kind of “landscape of the memories” each dress symbolizes a body which disappeared the bodies of the children died in the camps Nazis like those from the missing children.

While declaring “I paint with photography Jean Boltanski is one of the emblematic figures of this movement which goes against the design according to which the artist must purify his art of all the borrowed elements, and to release specificity, the gasoline from it.
It S also acts to leave the mystic of the purity of the medium. It's also acts in its work to choose combinative of the practices and materials.

Biography :

Christian Boltanski Lynn Gumpert

Boltanski: Montedipieta Christian Botanski auteur