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Christian Boltanski (1944)

Professions: Photographer

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    Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)

    Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)

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    Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)

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    Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)

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    CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI

    CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI

Christian Boltanski Biography

(b Paris, 6 Sept 1944). 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. The combination in these works of real and fictional evidence of his and other people’s existence remained central to his later art. As well as presenting assemblages of documentary photographs wrenched from their original context, in the 1970s he also experimented inventively with the production of objects made of clay and from unusual materials such as sugar and gauze dressings. These works, some of them entitled Attempt at Reconstitution of Objects that Belonged to Christian Boltanski between 1948 and 1954 (1970–71; see 1990 exh. cat., p. 11), again included flashbacks to segments of time and life that blurred memory with invention.

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