Awarded dutch portrait photographer Koos Breukel takes his intense black&white portraits with large format cameras.
Christian Boltanski is a French artist, photographer and sculptor who has worked in many media and styles. Made from the ephemeral junk, clutter and scraps of life, here are some examples of his shadow installations. Shadow rooms, theatres of memories and fragile evidence of humanity. What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. I made a large work called The Reserve of Dead Swiss (1990) and all the people in photographs in the work are dead. We hate to see the dead, yet we love them, we appreciate them. Human. That’s all we can say. Everyone is unique and important. But I like something Napoleon said when he saw many of his dead soldiers on a battlefield: ‘Oh, no problem – one night of love in Paris and you can replace everybody.’I’m always a beginner, and the most important thing is always the next piece. We artists never know if we can do it again. You have done something – and most of the time I hate what I have done a few years ago – and you don’t know if you can do something now. The good artists are usually the very young or the very old. The ones who are very young are so stupid that they have no fear. And when they are very old they aren’t afraid any more. In the meantime, you are always, always, afraid. Christian Botanski Thank you.
Christian Boltanski, Storage Memory // April 25–June 8, 2018
Photographe, sculpteur et cinéaste, il a été rendu célèbre par ses installations où se mêlent angoisses, émotions et souvenirs. Reconnu comme l’un des principaux artistes contemporains français, il est mort mercredi 14 juillet à l’âge de 76 ans.
Christian Boltanski is one of the most prominent artists of French contemporary art. Find out more about his work and his inspiration.
Sur 2 000 mètres carré, l’exposition « Faire son temps » propose une sélection d’œuvres de l’artiste.
Christian Boltanski is a French artist, photographer and sculptor who has worked in many media and styles. Made from the ephemeral junk, clutter and scraps of life, here are some examples of his shadow installations. Shadow rooms, theatres of memories and fragile evidence of humanity. What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. I made a large work called The Reserve of Dead Swiss (1990) and all the people in photographs in the work are dead. We hate to see the dead, yet we love them, we appreciate them. Human. That’s all we can say. Everyone is unique and important. But I like something Napoleon said when he saw many of his dead soldiers on a battlefield: ‘Oh, no problem – one night of love in Paris and you can replace everybody.’I’m always a beginner, and the most important thing is always the next piece. We artists never know if we can do it again. You have done something – and most of the time I hate what I have done a few years ago – and you don’t know if you can do something now. The good artists are usually the very young or the very old. The ones who are very young are so stupid that they have no fear. And when they are very old they aren’t afraid any more. In the meantime, you are always, always, afraid. Christian Botanski Thank you.
French artist Christian Boltanski has passed away aged 77. Here, we revist our 2018 interview with the sculptor, who created the limited edition cover for Wallpaper's April issue that year (W*229).
I’ve written about Centre Pompidou on this site before (read about it here ). The iconic building serves as France’s national museum for modern art. As one of the most visited art museums in the world, expect to see the greats of the 20th and 21st centuries. I visited to check out Christian Bol
Christian Boltanski, atelier de Malakoff, 1983. (bron en foto's: David Boeno) Christian Boltanski at work. (bron: Zest Today, foto: Sandro Capati) > Christian Boltanski
I’ve written about Centre Pompidou on this site before (read about it here ). The iconic building serves as France’s national museum for modern art. As one of the most visited art museums in the world, expect to see the greats of the 20th and 21st centuries. I visited to check out Christian Bol
Christian Boltanski is a French artist, photographer and sculptor who has worked in many media and styles. Made from the ephemeral junk, clutter and scraps of life, here are some examples of his shadow installations. Shadow rooms, theatres of memories and fragile evidence of humanity. What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. I made a large work called The Reserve of Dead Swiss (1990) and all the people in photographs in the work are dead. We hate to see the dead, yet we love them, we appreciate them. Human. That’s all we can say. Everyone is unique and important. But I like something Napoleon said when he saw many of his dead soldiers on a battlefield: ‘Oh, no problem – one night of love in Paris and you can replace everybody.’I’m always a beginner, and the most important thing is always the next piece. We artists never know if we can do it again. You have done something – and most of the time I hate what I have done a few years ago – and you don’t know if you can do something now. The good artists are usually the very young or the very old. The ones who are very young are so stupid that they have no fear. And when they are very old they aren’t afraid any more. In the meantime, you are always, always, afraid. Christian Botanski Thank you.
Memories eroded, recovered, or forged from or for other peoples and times are the major themes of 'Christian Boltanski: Lifetime,' the artist's first full-scale Japan retrospective at The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Alors que le Centre Pompidou lui consacre une rétrospective à Paris, retour sur les installations les plus remarquables du plasticien français Christian Boltanski.
Fondamentales www.frac-om.org Du 17 février au 22 avril 2023 Christian Boltanski, Benoît Broisat, Nina Childress, General Idea, Jesper Just, Mike Kelley, M
«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 publica…
France's greatest living artist Christian Boltanski has used piles of old clothes to make his most profound work yet, writes Laura Cumming in Paris
El creador de 76 años, considerado uno de los artistas más influyentes de su generación, abordaba en sus obras temas universales como la vida y la muerte, la memoria, el azar y la pérdida
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